turtlebot-setup does not change hostname

[mdxtinkernick]

Robot Model

Turtlebot4 Lite

ROS distro

Humble

Networking Configuration

Discovery Server

OS

Other Linux

Built from source or installed?

Installed

Package version

running jazzy on pi ubuntu 2404 using t4 lite image provided on website. Have run update/upgrade to get the latest released version of packages.

Expected behaviour

Trying to use the turtlebot4-setup script to change hostname of the robot - it lists it as a change that will be made, and applying then looking in about shows the new name

Actual behaviour

the hostname does not change. reboot and name still not changed.

Error messages

no error messages displayed

To Reproduce

run

turtlebot4-setup

select about from menu. select hostname from menu

type in desired hostname, press enter

select save

type in password at prompt

select apply changes, hostname change is indicated in changes that will be made display text below

System Settings:
HOSTNAME: turtlebot4 -> new

select yes

select apply changes again, now shows no changes to be made.

Other notes

No response

[mdxtinkernick]

after some digging found that setting hostnames in the server image of ubuntu doesn't persist unless you edit the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg file and set
preserve_hostname: true

once that is done then turtlebot-setup will work for changing the hostnames, so this may need adding to the pi image script

[civerachb-cpr]

I've created a merge request to update the Jazzy branch of turtlebot4_setup to modify /boot/firmware/user-data with the updated hostname as well; on 24.04 this is sufficient to get the hostname to persist across reboots.

If you're able, can you try applying #19 on your system and see if it fixes it on Humble as well?

[mdxtinkernick]

Can't test on humble, sorry - there was no jazzy option for selecting in ros distro - that's why I specified jazzy in package details