| Stephen Gran on 14 Sep 2005 10:18:39 -0000 |
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:02:18PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones said: > 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. Fix /etc/hosts - you have no entry for your machine there, and it obviously isn't findable in DNS. In order to get root, boot with init=/bin/sh, as sean said. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | We don't really understand it, so we'll | | steve@lobefin.net | give it to the programmers. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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