I had a similar problem with sudo. I solved it, I hope this helps developers to fix it quickly.
Problem: Recently upgrading to Hardy Inconsistent performance from commads "sudo" or "gksu" (I stopped using "gksudo", I thought it was deprecated but in retrospect if it isn't deprecated it might be related to this too). When running a "sudo" command in the console from a computer with hostname "myoriginalhostname" you get the message: [CODE] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo echo "Hello" sudo: unable to resolve host myoriginalcomputername Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [/CODE] The problem is that apparently the upgrader sets the computer name in the /etc/hosts file to the "default" computer name that the Ubuntu installer sets up. Thus, it takes the current user name and appends something like "-desktop" or "-laptop" to the end. So the hosts file might have a line like this: [CODE] 127.0.1.1 myusername-laptop [/CODE] Solution: For the installer (developers), you would have to make sure that the correct hostname is written to this file when upgrading. For the end user, edit the mentioned line in /etc/hosts and change "myusername-laptop" to your original computer name. I hope that helps. -- _usr_sbin_firestarter.0.crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
