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Robert

RRobert Think I can see what happened. Two versions are pushed on the same day, with t...

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 4:41 PM

The Renovate digests issue is exactly this. Made Timothee aware, and I'll try to push a fix to gitlab in the next couple days

M

M2•4/28/25, 5:04 PM

Oh he doesn't make sure to make a new version tag....

M

M2•4/28/25, 5:04 PM

You could probably steal the skopeo list-tags loop

j0rge

Jj0rge @89luca89 you still hang out here?

89luca89

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89luca89•4/28/25, 5:13 PM

yo!

Noel

NNoel **Emeritus Universal Blue** Hey @uBlue Members , I formally request to be move...

Noel

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Noel•4/28/25, 5:14 PM

Update for this: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/827

GitHub

Emeritus - Noel Miller · Issue #827 · ublue-os/main

From the original Discord post: I formally request to be moved to Emeritus status in the Universal Blue organization. I feel that my contributions to Universal Blue would be better served by focusi...

j0rge

Jj0rge I got the /etc/hostname error on my distrobox upgrade in Bluefin LTS, so it's no...

89luca89

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89luca89•4/28/25, 5:16 PM

what error? is there a place where we're tracking this?

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:25 PM

no just users complaining

89luca89

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89luca89•4/28/25, 5:31 PM

got it I scrolled a bit back but I couldn't find what problem

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:37 PM

trying to find it

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:38 PM

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/issues/2437

j0rge

J

j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:38 PM

here it is

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:38 PM

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/issues/2434

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:39 PM

it happened on my centos machine too so it's not just F42

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:40 PM

@uBlue Members anyone else seeing these /etc/hostname errors? breaks distroboxes

j0rge

Jj0rge @uBlue Members anyone else seeing these /etc/hostname errors? breaks distroboxes

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

nae

HikariKnight

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HikariKnight•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

nope nothing here

j0rge

Jj0rge @uBlue Members anyone else seeing these /etc/hostname errors? breaks distroboxes

bsherman

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bsherman•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

no: but i don't use distrobox much

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

me either

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

kylegospo@proteus:~$ cat /etc/hostname
proteus

kylegospo@proteus:~$ cat /etc/hostname
proteus

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/28/25, 5:41 PM

kylegospo@proteus:~$ distrobox enter fedora
📦[kylegospo@fedora ~]$

kylegospo@proteus:~$ distrobox enter fedora
📦[kylegospo@fedora ~]$

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:44 PM

ok so my 42 machine has a hostname but my LTS one does not.

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:45 PM

if we touch an empty hostname file if it's missing that seems to solve the issue

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 5:46 PM

The issue I believe is if you create a Distrobox while there's an os-release present, then update the host to an image which remove it, the container fails to start up

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:46 PM

update the host to remove what?

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 5:47 PM

Perform an update on the host. A recent report said rolling back to a previous update restored the file

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:47 PM

yeah I can't replicate on my F42 machine

j0rge

J

j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:47 PM

but my LTS machine is missing the file

j0rge

J

j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:51 PM

Oh interesting!

j0rge

J

j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 5:51 PM

the machines are DX only

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:20 PM

i do not have an /etc/hostname

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:20 PM

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:20 PM

No static hostname

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:22 PM

I believe instead its getting the default hostname from

/etc/os-release

/etc/os-release

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:22 PM

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:23 PM

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/hostname.html

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 6:25 PM

ok so what should we do?

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 6:28 PM

[Unit]
name=Universal Blue Missing /etc/hostname Workaround
description=Workaround for the missing /etc/hostname file on Universal Blue systems
after=network.target
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/hostname

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo "%H" > /etc/hostname'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

[Unit]
name=Universal Blue Missing /etc/hostname Workaround
description=Workaround for the missing /etc/hostname file on Universal Blue systems
after=network.target
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/hostname

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo "%H" > /etc/hostname'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Something like this?

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 6:30 PM

sgtm, does anyone hate this?

j0rge

J

j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 6:30 PM

can we toss this in one of the service packages so we can fix lts and bluefin in one place?

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 6:31 PM

No idea on aurora, so far looks to be bluefin only?

Robert

RRobert ``` [Unit] name=Universal Blue Missing /etc/hostname Workaround description=Work...

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:32 PM

The only thing weird is if a user is truly using dhcp for setting hostnames. I would maybe add a stamp file instead for the conditions check

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 6:33 PM

Do they not have /etc/hostname files? Or does their

hostname

hostname

not return what DHCP assigned?

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 6:33 PM

I would expect $ hostname$ hostname to always give the desired name, which is what the %H does

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:34 PM

i have no idea what takes precedence. If /etc/hostname or a transient hostname

M

M2•4/28/25, 6:34 PM

as in we are making a transient hostname static by writing it to /etc/hostname

Robert

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Robert•4/28/25, 6:35 PM

And also, since we have no idea what caused it, it could happen again, so something more automated than stampfiles would be ideal

j0rge

Jj0rge can we toss this in one of the service packages so we can fix lts and bluefin in...

renner

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renner•4/28/25, 6:35 PM

Someone reported the same issue yesterday on aurora
https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora/issues/393

j0rge

Jj0rge @uBlue Members anyone else seeing these /etc/hostname errors? breaks distroboxes

tangentsoft

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tangentsoft•4/28/25, 6:36 PM

I reported it a few weeks ago, and it came up again last week. I just rebuilt all my ’boxes rather than mess with workarounds.

j0rge

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j0rgeOP•4/28/25, 6:36 PM

if it's been a few weeks we'd get way more reports wouldn't we?

tangentsoft

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tangentsoft•4/28/25, 6:37 PM

Either people are building clean boxes atop 42, or rebuilding like I did, or just not using Distrobox all that much.

[Unit]
name=Universal Blue Missing /etc/hostname Workaround
description=Workaround for the missing /etc/hostname file on Universal Blue systems
after=network.target
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/hostname

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo "%H" > /etc/hostname'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

[Unit]
name=Universal Blue Missing /etc/hostname Workaround
description=Workaround for the missing /etc/hostname file on Universal Blue systems
after=network.target
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/hostname

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo "%H" > /etc/hostname'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target