[SOLVED] Terminal shows "username@unknownc8f733a9cb03" not localhost

Question

I  would say about 75% of the time, I am not logged in as local host and instead @unknownc8f733a9cb0. On seemingly random times, it WILL log me in as localhost.
I first noticed this when Google Chrome / Chromium would refuse to open. I tried opening them in the terminal and got this error message:
[25787:25787:0707/114022:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(309)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (4311) on another computer (localhost).
Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium.
[25787:25787:0707/114022:ERROR:simple_message_box_views.cc(208)] Unable to show a dialog outside the UI thread message loop: Chromium -
The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (4311) on another computer (localhost). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted.
If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium.
Chrome works on the (random) times I am localhost.
If it helps, the "@unknownc8f733a9cb0" started happening after accidentally deleting my Microsoft reserved Partition (another problem for another day...), but Chrome not starting up happened before that. I didn't think to try terminal until after I noticed "@unknownc8f733a9cb0"
P.S --> Newie, how do I get output code inside quote boxes. It's been a while since I've reviewed HTML tags, and <quote></quote> doesn't seem to work.
Last edited by encrator (2014-07-07 18:44:29)

Answer 1

Sorry, here's the output of that:
cat: /etc/hostname: No such file or directory
If relevant, cat: /etc/hosts produces this:
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# End of file