Re: systemd uses transient hostname instead of static hostname

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Am 2015-03-10 00:18, schrieb Hanspeter Kunz:
> Hi list,
>
> i just upgraded a few systems to jessie an noticed that all of them
> "loose" their hostnames on reboot, because systemd is using/reverting 
> to
> "Linux" as transient hostname. This happens early in the boot process.
>
> journalctl -b says:
>
> [...]
> Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
> Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
> Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
> Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
> Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd-journal[285]: Journal started
> Mär 10 00:00:46 Linux systemd[1]: Starting Slices.
> Mär 10 00:00:46 Linux systemd[1]: Reached target Slices.
> Mär 10 00:00:46 Linux systemd[1]: Mounted Debug File System.
> Mär 10 00:00:46 Linux systemd[1]: Mounted Huge Pages File System.
> [...]
>
> (notice the change of the hostname at line 6)
>
> I can do
>
> hostnamectl set-hostname --transient maximilian
>
> and after that every works fine - until the next reboot.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what could be causing this or how to fix it?

I can't reproduce this.
What's the content of your /etc/hostname?
What's the output of "ls -la /etc/os-release /usr/lib/os-release" and
the content of those files.