Ubuntu
sudo package

  1. Bug #32906
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 32906

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Kristleifur Daðason (kristleifur) wrote : Re: sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on

The sudo+hostname bug/inconvenience happened to me. I hosed my hosts file when upgrading from 7.04 to 8.04. Sudo didn't want to do anything, but gksudo worked fine. The network-dependent sudo failed, but the X11-dependent gksudo was OK. Redundancy saves the day.