[Bug 1310341] Re: Upgrade from Saucy to Trusty removed my user from sudoers

[Jeff Lane]

I couldn't even submit some information for this bug via apport-collect
because it requires SUDO.

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Title:
  Upgrade from Saucy to Trusty removed my user from sudoers

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just did a full upgrade from Saucy to Trusty.

  After completing the upgrade and rebooting and logging in, I opened a
  terminal an attempted to add a ppa so I could try out a calendar
  indicator applet.

  However, I just discovered that the upgrade destroyed my sudoers file
  and my ONLY user account no longer has sudo access.

  Because of this, I can't do ANYTHING on my system because I don't have
  sudoers.

  So my upgrade from Saucy to Trusty has, right off the bat, left me
  with an unusable system I must now repair.

  bladernr at klaatu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
  [sudo] password for bladernr: 
  bladernr is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
  bladernr at klaatu:~$ sudo su -
  [sudo] password for bladernr: 
  bladernr is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
  bladernr at klaatu:~$ cat /etc/sudoers
  cat: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (765 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: sudo 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Sudoers: Error: command ['pkexec', '/bin/cat', '/etc/sudoers'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
  Tags:  trusty
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-20 (0 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm lpadmin wireshark
  VisudoCheck: Error: command ['pkexec', '/usr/sbin/visudo', '-c'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
  _MarkForUpload: True
  modified.conffile..etc.sudoers: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/sudoers']
  modified.conffile..etc.sudoers.d.README: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/sudoers.d/README']

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