[PLUG] sudo broken in ubuntu

["Christopher M. Jones" <cjones@partialflow.com>]

I've just put Ubuntu on a second drive to try it out. I ran etherconf to
set up the network and now I can't sudo anything. I get sudo: unable to
lookup copernicus.example.com via getbyhostname(). I hunted around a
bit, and I found a few people saying they fixed this error by
reconfiguring locales. However, their fixes involve using sudo, and that
is completely non functional for me at the moment. 

Any ideas, anyone? Note that because ubuntu has no root account
configured and I didn't set one up, there is effectively no root on this
machine without sudo. Nor can I mount the drive and chroot into it from
my debian because of "unsupported features" in ubuntu's ext3. 

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