Comment 50 for bug 32906

I don't understand this. I can see the proper listing in the hostfile
and I still have the problem. But I didn't edit it in recovery mode.

Why must I do that and how do I do the recovery mode boot?

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Pasi <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 32906 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 32906] Re: sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the
host it’s running on
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:18:29 -0000

I encountered this same problem after upgrading from gutsy to hardy.
After trying to resolve connection problems which were messed up after
the upgrade the sudo stopped working. It happened when I disabled my
wireless and lan connection from kde network management tools. Booting
in recovery mode and adding the host name back did fix the problem.

I find this very serious problem since ubuntu relies so heavily on sudo
(the lack of root account) and if that command fails there is no way to
do anything. sudo should not depend on network configurations. It sounds
very very dangerous!