Upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 64 bit Problem with sudo

[lurch]

Hi
I have upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10.
I had a problem booting at the start as my computer crashed during the initial shut down and reboot.
8.04 did not appear in the Grub boot list. I have got it to boot with the aid of the recovery program and installing Hardy pre-release to hda. My main program is on hdb
I have the following problem with sudo
ken@ken-desktop:~$ sudo nano /etc/group-
sudo: unable to resolve host ken-desktop
ken@ken-desktop:~$
I am unable to open anything for the administrator in KDE
Any help would be appreciated
Lurch

[Nck]

Re: Upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 64 bit Problem with sudo

This seems to be a general problem on upgrading to hardy. It is caused by the /etc/hosts file being written without the hostname. The first line of your /etc/hosts file probably now looks like

127.0.0.1 localhost

and you want to replace this with

127.0.0.1 localhost ken-desktop
127.0.0.1 ken-desktop

To do this, you will probably need to login to failsafe mode.

If this doesn't work I may be able to help; my system was pretty messed up

[lurch]

Re: Upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 64 bit Problem with sudo

Hi Nck
Thanks for the reply and help.
It appears to have fixed the sudo problem, time will tell.
The other problem is when I log in the 7.10 log in screen is still coming up.
I log in it boots to the desktop flickers blacks out and the 7.10 log in screen appears.
I log back in and it boots up ok.
A Grub problem perhaps?
Lurch

[Nck]

Re: Upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 64 bit Problem with sudo

The other problem is when I log in the 7.10 log in screen is still coming up.
I log in it boots to the desktop flickers blacks out and the 7.10 log in screen appears.
I log back in and it boots up ok.

Haven't seen anything like this, sorry.

[lurch]

Re: Upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 64 bit Problem with sudo

Hi nck
Thanks for the reply.
I will keep looking
Best regards
Lurch