I've marked this as confirmed. No idea why it uses hostname -f, but it does and it breaks at least installs of the package ime and upgrades in others experience.
This was seen in lucid. ** Changed in: global (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- global: pkg fails to configure if FQDN unknown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs