On initial boot, the hostname is set to the short name, but after reboot it's set to the fqdn.

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Issue

  • On initial boot, the hostname is set to the short name, but after reboot it's set to the fqdn
  • Distro.set_hostname() uses wrong hostname when calling _apply_hostname().

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • cloud-init

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