Deja Dup thinks current computer name is bar but it should be foo
Fedora 17 x86_64 - running the "Backup" utility aka Deja Dup. Set it up previously and ran at least one backup. Now a regularly scheduled backup starts and get an error message along the lines of "Computer Name Changed" "The existing backup is of a computer named foo but the current computer's name is bar. If this is unexpected you should backup to a different location". In my case the actual (incorrect) name of the "current computer" was something like 12-34-56-78.tvc-ip.com which made absolutely no sense at all. (I made up the numbers which represent an ip address but the tvc-ip.com is what it really said). So what gives? "Backup" is really "Deja-Dup". "Deja-Dup is really a GUI front end for "Duplicity". "Duplicity" is apparently written in Python. When Python decides to figure out the current computer's name, it calls socket.getfqdn() So I ...