after installing an ethernet card and changing hostname sudo stops working
Bug #81697 reported by
Luca Corsini
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
if you install dapper without an ethernet card and then you install one and change hostname, sudo stops working and complains with this error: sudo: unable to lookup HOSTNAME via gethostbyname()
This is because without an ethernet card the hostname you choose during install gets associated to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, removing this line (in recovery mode) makes sudo work again
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| Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote | #1 |
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? If so, please reopen the bug. Thanks in advance.