Sorry, please make that
strace -tt -o /tmp/sudo.trace sudo true
to include timestamps into the log. Also, please give the output of
hostname
and attach your /etc/hosts.
** Tags added: hang
** Tags removed: deadlock hangs manager password su update
** Summary changed:
- Update manager ha
This sounds very similar to bug 32906, but this was fixed in hardy
(8.04).
I cannot reproduce this at all, if I remove "localhost" and my hostname
from /etc/hosts, both sudo and gksu still work fine.
To debug this on your side: do you also get the hang if you run "sudo"
in a root terminal? I. e.
I think I have the same problem (then again, I may have miss-understood it
entirely)
Whenever anything gksudo comes up, it just hangs. Normal sudo takes ages (type
command, wait wait wait, host could not be resolved, enter password) I have to
do everything from the command line, and it takes age
Thanks Joel. Your solution worked perfectly for me. I was seeing the
hang on update manager as well as a prompt when executing a command in
the terminal saying "Could not resolve host ***".
I think this occurred because after installation and the initial
configuration I added the domain name t
