Comment 6 for bug 1862232

I went and updated a machine with the issue to use the -updated packages, and after installing all of them, I no longer see the issue where the long hostname causes the networking setup to fail. The hostname is now truncated at 64 characters.

This is on bionic:

root@asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04

root@asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf:~# apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 237-3ubuntu10.40
  Candidate: 237-3ubuntu10.40
  Version table:
 *** 237-3ubuntu10.40 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     237-3ubuntu10.39 500
        500 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
     237-3ubuntu10.38 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
     237-3ubuntu10 500
        500 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages