Re: [PLUG] salvaging an ubuntu upgrade

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 11:11:46 am Chad Waters wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Art Alexion <xt> wrote:
> >  Everything looks fine, except one thing.
> >
> >  Whenever I try to run anything as sudo it hestiates, then reports
> >  sudo: unable to resolve host <localhostname>
> >
> >  /etc/hostname is correct
> >  the networkmanager seems to have the host correctly.
>
> This was a bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/32906
>
> Which was fixed in hardy-updates:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.1

Looks like the solution is to manually add the local hostname 
to /etc/hosts; /etc/hostname isn't enough.

Oddly, I upgraded 5 machines and the problem only occurred on the 5th and last 
upgrade.  The others didn't have the problem.

Thanks for the link.

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