Bug: Kubuntu-8.04beta-desktop-i386

[NoOp]

On 04/06/2008 05:24 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote:
> I installed Kubuntu-8.04beta-desktop-i386, and then discovered that,
> no matter what I did, that I was *UN*able to administer the system.
> What do I mean by that?:
> Going into any of the "control panels",
> some of them would reguire "Administrator" authorization to function.
> I'd click on the "Administration" authorization button,
> be presented with the authorization dialogue,
> input my password to authenticate myself to "sudo",
> and then not be able to do anything, because the GUI
> administration functions didn't recognize me as administrator...
> i.e. there's a bug in the GUI sudo authentication which results in
> NO POSSIBILITY of entering ADMINISTRATOR mode, leaving the system
> ABSOLUTELY UNUSABLE. The obvious solution? "Upgrade" to 7.10.
> You can *lie* that this is a beta, but it's at most an alpha.

No... beta is beta. But with regards to your problem; there may be two
possible problems (or a combination of the two).

1. I found that 8.04 changed my hosts file so that the local host wasn't
being resolved. This affects sudo in this version for some reason. In my
host file:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost ubuntu.mshome
127.0.1.1 ubuntu

.mshome was being added to 127.0.1.1 ubuntu (127.0.1.1 ubuntu.mshome).
After I modified sudo worked again. Also check your /etc/hostname to
make sure that it has the hostname (in the sample above: ubuntu).

2. The home directory for root was /home/root when it should have been
/root.

There are bugs filed for the above, but I don't have them handy just now.