Setting hostname error, at startup

Keith G. Robertson-Turner fedora-gmane.00003 at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk
Wed Sep 20 04:28:17 UTC 2006


Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> I get this every time I boot, in the initrd console:
> 
> Setting hostname thereisnospoon:  [  OK  ]
> ERROR: No arguments allowed with -i
> 
> I checked /etc/rc.sysinit and the only relevant thing it contains is this:
> 
> ###
> # Set the hostname.
> update_boot_stage RChostname
> action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}
> ###
> 
> Nothing wrong with that AFAICT, so where exactly is this mysterious "-i"
> flag coming from?
> 
> This problem has been around since FC5 was released, AFAIK.
> 
> So, how do I fix it?

Reported:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207237

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