Cannot "sudo".
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sudo (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04, I cannot access Synaptic from the menu, and I cannot execute any "sudo" anything from a terminal window. I get the message "sudo: unable to resolve host Casi". Casi is, and has always been this computer's name. I had to log in as root, in order to change my /boot/grub/menu.lst file, so I could see the messages generated at boot-up. They went by too fast to read, but one that mentioned starting some service had a big red "[FAILED]" following it. This is ugly; this is the fourth, major, show stopping bug I have encountered in the hour since I did the upgrade. I'll wait till tomorrow, (and use my Windows machine (ugh)) to scan the forums, and check for updates and fixes, but if it doesn't look very rosy tomorrow morning, I'm going to roll back to the backuped version of 7.10, which was running flawlessly, before the upgrade. Please fix these problems SOON, or I'm going to end up with egg on my face, in front of my friends who are [still] staunch supporters of Windows. I don't want to have to admit to them that I wasted a day and a half upgrading, and then rolling back a Linux installation.
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