The sudo+hostname bug/inconvenience happened to me. I hosed my hosts file when upgrading from 7.04 to 8.04. Sudo didn't want to do anything, but gksudo worked fine. The network-dependent sudo failed, but the X11-dependent gksudo was OK. Redundancy saves the day.
-- 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
