Two (related?) problems in fresh install of Fedora 19

[William W. Austin]

This weekend I did a clean install of fedora 19 on my main workstation 
(I pulled the drive containing /, /tmp, and /var (plus swap) running 
fedora 17, and it's available to compare).

I didn't care for the installer changes since 17, but I got through it 
alive.

HOWEVER, I am now having some network problems (at least 2) and I think 
they are related.

The first sounds trivial and isn't.  The system thinks its hostname is 
"nick" even though the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network say otherwise.
That is, the hostname is set correctly there.   Also a recursive grep 
through /etc finds no instance of the string "nick" anywhere (nor in 
/boot, /boot/grub2, etc).

Setting the hostname manually works up to a point but of course some 
things never reference the hostname after boot up and they are somewhat 
hosed.

The other main problem may be related - it's a network issue, probably 
connected with PackageKit.  Every few minutes I am getting a message saying:
	No network connection available
	cannot refresh cache when offline

So I suspect that PackageKit may be hosed and may be trying to reference 
the wrong hostname.

I have a second problem but it's related to sound not network and I'll 
put it in a second post.

Thanks in advance for any help - yes I did a bugzilla search but if it's 
there I missed it, and I didn't see this problem in any email about fc19 
(although I admittedly may have missed it).

- Bill
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william w. austin                                     airedad at att.net
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