hostname size differs in live-installator and text-mode install

Bug #52501 reported by Vojtěch Látal
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

While installing ubuntu through live-cd, i have to enter hostname between 3 and 18 characters long. But in text-mode install i can enter and use hostname at least 2 characters long. And If I enter for example "my.pc" in gnome-live-installator, it tells me that the hostname may contain only letters, digits and hyphens.But if I enter the same string in text-based install my hostname automagically changes to "my" without warning.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

ubiquity (1.3.7) feisty; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Remove "Set Time..." button, which is far more trouble than it's worth
    (LP: #49412, #52716, #52717, #73907, #76564). You can adjust the time
    after installation.
  * Fix a silly typo while setting up the resize progress bar (LP: #77523).
  * Don't say "beta version" in the alpha intro message.
  * Move language list box to the left-hand side of its page rather than the
    bottom, on the basis that you have to choose a language before you can
    read the text.
  * Switch to glade-3 (those with branches that modify ubiquity.glade, take
    note).
  * Add special cases to restore correct handling of Chinese and Portuguese
    language codes.
  * If /cdrom/.disk/release_notes_url is present, display a link to the
    release notes on the language page. See doc/README for the format
    (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-release-notes).
  * Remove no-longer-canonical /distros from Launchpad URLs.
  * Sync up hostname handling with netcfg; it now allows hostnames between 2
    and 63 characters in length, forbids them starting or ending with a
    hyphen, and interprets hostnames containing dots as hostname.domain and
    adjusts /etc/hosts accordingly (LP: #52501, #72909).

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Port KDE frontend to Qt 4

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:59:25 +0000

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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