[Bug 1764172] Re: Unable to change hostname from the one specified during Bionic server installation

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

(In addition to the one mentioned by WirelessMoves, I found several
other Ubuntu Forum threads as well as blog posts, etc. which recommend
working around this problem by editing the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg file to
set the "preserve_hostname:" line's value to "true".  However, that
approach means there would be a conffile conflict whenever the cloud-
init package is upgraded, so a better solution in the long run is
probably to create a new file in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ with that
setting instead.)

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Title:
  Unable to change hostname from the one specified during Bionic server
  installation

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  New
Status in hostname package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Bionic Beta 2 I am not able on a host or in a guest VM to change
  the hostname of a Bionic Beta 2 installation by changing
  /etc/hostname. The name in the file can be changed but it always
  reverts to the hostname configured during installation.

  In the following thread on the topic it is suggested to remove a
  number of cloud packages. When doing this in a VM install I could
  change the hostname again via /etc/hostname.

  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2389098&page=2

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