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mslt
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:27 pm Post subject: hostname changed on network connection |
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Hi there,
I installed gentoo several weeks ago and everything works fine... Exept when I join my girlfriend's network (WiFi or LAN does not matter). Then out of nowhere the system acts weird. When I try to open a terminal (xfce4-terminal) nothing happens. When I try to restart the i3 (i3-gaps) env (Mod+Shift+r). The X server crashes only saying "resource is not available". So I type startx again, open a terminal and the hostname changend from "tank" to "unknown[MAC address of the network interface I am conntected with].
I do not really know where to start debugging this. Could anyone help with this? Has anyone experienced something like this? |
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fedeliallalinea
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dmesg report some errors?
EDIT: welcome to the forum
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Hu
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| What program(s) are responsible for managing your network connection? Have you configured those programs not to change the system's hostname? |
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xaviermiller
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
could you provide us the output of and what you did install?
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krinn
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| Hu wrote: | | What program(s) are responsible for managing your network connection? Have you configured those programs not to change the system's hostname? |
Best answer for me, getting hostname from dhcp, while girlfriend's network dhcp have no idea what name to provide. |
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mslt
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Well thanks for the quick responses 
| Quote: | | dmesg report some errors? |
No errors regarding network stuff.
| Quote: | | What program(s) are responsible for managing your network connection? Have you configured those programs not to change the system's hostname? |
NetworkManager... Was the quick and dirty solution for LAN, WiFi and openVPN.
| Quote: | | could you provide us the output of emerge --info |
Sure, u can find it here
https://pastebin.com/XWT8Jwbm
| Quote: | | and what you did install? |
Here u go
https://pastebin.com/RyFgj93p
and again great thanks for the quick responses. |
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mslt
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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ok I got it fixed.
I added to the /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
| Code: | request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers;
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and to the /etc/hosts
| Code: | 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost HOSTNAME
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost HOSTNAME
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