@Dorin > Perhaps sudo should try to use the name from /etc/hostname when gethostbyname > fails? > It looks quite simple to do that, and assume that you'll have there 127:0.0.1 > (in both IPv4 and v6)?!?!?!
You seem to be confused. That's _exactly_ what `sudo` is doing: it's using the known _local_ hostname which would've been set in "/etc/hostname." It has to resolve this _local_ hostname and does so with the _local_ "/etc/hosts" file. > gnome-terminal is simply broken if it needs to resolve any kind of hostname during startup. you are aware that the X Window System is a client-server setup over the loopback interface aren't you?!? Apps should _always_ be able to resolve the _local_ hostname and some have come to rely on this fact. @everyone *_There is no bug here_* The original "bug reporter" in the _blog_ overwrote his "/etc/hosts" file and in doing so broke his _local_ host configuration. `sudo` errors were merely the first symptom he noticed of his newly broken system. *_To prove that something is wrong with sudo_* you would need to show a situation where `sudo` does _not_ work but the following does: ~$ grep `hostname` /etc/hosts ***Revised Proof: Same machine, 2 terminals; root breaks and fixes the system; asmoore tests sudo: ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep `hostname` /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 pickles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo id [sudo] password for asmoore: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo -k [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sed -i "s/pickles/foobar/g" /etc/hosts [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep `hostname` /etc/hosts [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo id sudo: unable to resolve host pickles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo -k sudo: unable to resolve host pickles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hostname foobar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep `hostname` /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 foobar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo id [sudo] password for asmoore: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo -k [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hostname `cat /etc/hostname` [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sed -i "s/foobar/pickles/g" /etc/hosts [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep `hostname` /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 pickles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo id [sudo] password for asmoore: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo -k ----- Adam sM -- sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
