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From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: bsdinstall - setting hostname
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>Number:         172846
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall(8) - setting hostname
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 18 09:30:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 31 14:10:00 UTC 2012
>Originator:     jb
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct  2 17:11:45 UTC 2012     root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Setting the Hostname.

The entered host name is not propagated to /etc/hosts (only to /etc/rc.conf), 
which causes xauth problem with X startup.
note: this is a normal response
$ cat .startx.log
xauth:  file /home/jb/.serverauth.35136 ...
..
 
I had to manually edit /etc/hosts by adding bsdinstall's host entry
"localhost.localdomain" and reboot.

>How-To-Repeat:
as above
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Oct 18 14:39:38 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Fix synopsis and assign 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172846 

From: J B <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jb.1234abcd@gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/172846: bsdinstall(8) - setting hostname
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:21:56 +0200

 This might be helpful.
 
 $ cat /usr/sbin/bsdinstall
 ...
 exec /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/$VERB $@ 2>>"$BSDINSTALL_LOG"
 ...
 
 $ cat /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/auto
 ..
 bsdinstall hostname || error
 ...
 finalconfig() {
   ...
         "Hostname")
                 bsdinstall hostname
                 finalconfig
                 ;;
   ...
 }
 
 $ cat /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/hostname
 ...
 echo "hostname=\"$HOSTNAME\"" > $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.hostname
 ...
 
 $ grep -r BSDINSTALL_TMPETC /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/
 ...
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:cat $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.* >>
 $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:rm $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.*
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:cp $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/* $BSDINSTALL_CHROOT/etc
 ...
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/hostname:echo "hostname=\"$HOSTNAME\"" >
 $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.hostname
 ...
 
 jb

From: J B <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/172846: bsdinstall - setting hostname
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:02:06 +0100

 Related problem:
 misc/174859: Installation: /etc/hosts file
 jb
>Unformatted:
