Description Philipp Hahn 2013-08-30 19:34:30 CEST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #29469 +++
During a PXE profile installation, the DNS server was not available. The host was named "3(NXDOMAIN)" instead:

# cat /tmp/installation_profile_scanned
hostname='3(NXDOMAIN)'

After the installation the host doesn't have any name:
# cat /etc/hostname

Looks like something (host) doesn't know the difference between STDOUT and STDERR...

+ for ts in '$to_scan' '$scan'
+ '[' hostname = hostname ']'
++ cat /proc/cmdline
++ grep ip
++ sed -e 's/.*ip=//g'
+ ipcmd='10.200.17.242:10.200.17.93:10.200.17.1:255.255.255.0 BOOTIF=01-e0-69-95-4f-81-0d BOOT_IMAGE=ucs-3.1-1/linux
++ echo 10.200.17.242:10.200.17.93:10.200.17.1:255.255.255.0 BOOTIF=01-e0-69-95-4f-81-0d BOOT_IMAGE=ucs-3.1-1/linux-
++ awk -F : '{print $1}'
+ myip=10.200.17.242
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n 192.168.0.135 ']'
++ host 10.200.17.242 192.168.0.135
++ tail -1
++ awk '{print $5}'
++ awk -F . '{print $1}'
+ host='3(NXDOMAIN)'
+ '[' -n '3(NXDOMAIN)' ']'
+ echo 'hostname='\''3(NXDOMAIN)'\'''

Please consider switching to "dig", which is the newer replacement for host:
# dig +short -x 10.200.17.242 @192.168.0.135
# dig +short -x 192.168.0.135 @192.168.0.135
xen12.phahn.dev.

In profile-mode the installer should probably abort the installer process, log an error message to a remote-log-server (Bug #19959) and power-off the computer.
In interactive mode, the profile should be marked as incomplete and the user should should get a chance to fix the hostname herself.