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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] [kde-sunset] KDE3/Gentoo problem
From:       Brent Busby <brent () keycorner ! org>
Date:       2010-11-02 19:29:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.1011021428040.24239 () village ! keycorner ! org
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Ladislav Laska wrote:

> thanks for your reply. This is what I suspected, but I don't use NM
> and don't recall that any of my networks try to set my hostname (I
> connect only to a dorm network, and eduroam, sometimes some dnsmasq
> driven lan).
>
> I have no idea who tries to set my hostname and will investigate it
> (it really seems that setting my hostname to empty string is the
> cause, but still I don't know why. One idea is that something is
> corrupting my memory (I would point at i915 driver, but don't really
> have time for debugging).

The DHCP client itself can obey instructions from the LAN to do this. 
There are options in most of them to set it locally.  Most DHCP networks 
assign really long obnoxious hostnames to clients, so you can end up 
seeing these names at your shell prompt sometimes if you don't override 
it yourself.

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