Comment 2 for bug 223515

Relevant information: The following occurred immediately after upgrading my Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04, both Desktop-i386 versions. I am running a DELL Optiplex GX270, with a 2.8 GHz Dual core Pentium-4, 3/4 of a Gig of RAM, and a 40Gb hard disk. The system had been performing flawlessly, ever since I replaced Windows XP with Ubuntu 7.10, six months or so ago.

Item A: 1) I went to the menu, System/Administration, and clicked on "Synaptic Package Manager". 2) I expected the result I have always gotten, which is, a brief pause, followed by the Synaptic Package Manager window opening. 3) The result I got... the cursor changed to the little whirly thing for a second or two, then returned to its normal appearance. The window did not open. Repeated tries resulted in the same scenario. Therefore, no access to Synaptic through the menu.

Item B: 1) I entered the following at the prompt in a terminal window:
    CODE:
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    sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
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2) I expected, as has always happened in the past, to be asked for my password and, after supplying it, for a "gedit" window to open on the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
3) What I got instead was the following:
    QUOTE:
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    bili@Casi:~$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
    sudo: unable to resolve host Casi
    bili@Casi:~$ _
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Hope this helps. I have ADD and tend to be a bit wordy. Sorry.