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sergdev
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 Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 3:43 pm Post subject: change of hostname by dhcp and kde broken [SOLVED] |
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Hey guys!
I am seeing strange thing: in a short time after signin my prompt in the terminal changes to the pc-19, something like:
pc-19 ~#
it's happening only today, when I moved to another appartments, another internet provider and I restarted pc after a week with no restarts...
And one of symptoms: my kde stops working.... new gui programs impossible to start
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krinn
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| it's more probably that after few time your dhcp provide an ip and an hostname, why it's "pc-19", no idea |
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389292
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I would call my botnet pc1, pc2, pc3 etc. as well. |
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krinn
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| etnull wrote: | | I would call my botnet pc1, pc2, pc3 etc. as well. |
But would you help user to see he has been hack by doing something he could easy see? |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| krinn wrote: | | it's more probably that after few time your dhcp provide an ip and an hostname, why it's "pc-19", no idea |
That also explains why KDE broke. It's a common problem with that desktop. Surprised they still refuse to fix it. |
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sergdev
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | | krinn wrote: | | it's more probably that after few time your dhcp provide an ip and an hostname, why it's "pc-19", no idea |
That also explains why KDE broke. It's a common problem with that desktop. Surprised they still refuse to fix it. |
Oh, how do I prevent this problem ? |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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The usual way to fix it is by putting whatever you configured your hostname as in /etc/hosts:
| Code: | 127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.2 <hostname> |
There's also sys-auth/nss-myhostname, but I haven't tried that.
If you can configure the dhcp client to not change the hostname, that would work too. |
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sergdev
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | The usual way to fix it is by putting whatever you configured your hostname as in /etc/hosts:
| Code: | 127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.2 <hostname> |
There's also sys-auth/nss-myhostname, but I haven't tried that.
If you can configure the dhcp client to not change the hostname, that would work too. |
Thank you so much! I've tried one of these ideas before you wrote (forced localhost name for my pc for interface but it still was buggy)
Then I changed my hostname to be the same as my provider configured it for me and now everything works. |
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