On 25.11.2012 16:13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/25/12, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: >>> On 11/25/12, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> On 24.11.2012 14:40, Tom H wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Any idea how to make use of systemd-hostnamed? >>>>>> Eg: >>>>>> $ sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed >>>>>> Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname >>>>>> might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname! >>>>>> # hang's at this point, apparently indefinitely... >>>>> What are you expecting it to do? >>>> It doesn't hang. It is a system daemon which just waits sits there and >>>> waits for requests (via D-Bus). >>>> Nothing unexpected here aside from starting this tool directly. > >>> $ man systemd-hostnamed >>> No manual entry for systemd-hostnamed > >> The latest version of system has hostnamectl and a man page for >> systemd-hostnamed. > > Sounds good. I'll look out for it. > >> Even if you weren't using systemd, you would've had the xterm problem >> because you removed the standard "127.0.1.1 ..." line from >> "/etc/hosts", > > False assumption. I reinstalled in a bit of a rush, and networking > didn't get set up as part of installation. So that line never got put > in by the installer. All I had was the 127.0.0.1 localhost line, to > which I just added my proper hostname to solve this 'extended delay' > problem. > > Should I put my proper hostname as a separate 127.0.1.1 line instead? > >> although I'm not sure how xterm would behave with the >> hostname known by the kernel being different from the one on the >> "127.0.1.1" line. > > It hangs for 10 to 20s before opening. But only with systemd bootup. > Today I suspended my laptop, took it off it's dock, put it back on > dock about 3 hrs later and tried to unsuspend, no go - various usb > errors spewing. Hard reset, no reboot under systemd (disk checks), try > again, no. > Back to /sbin/init, success. Try a final time to check systemd bootup > - no go on systemd. > So I'm now stuck back on /sbin/init. Again. > > And now, the xterm 'extended pause' does not happen, even if I remove > my 'proper' hostname from /etc/hosts (so that I cannot ping my > hostname). > > So, I guess it's time to file a bug, somewhere... in relation to systemd
I have the impression you are fiddling a lot with your system without actually knowing what you are doing and you're breaking a lot while doing that. Please only file a bug report if there is actually a valid bug and not just some misconfiguration. Thanks, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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