I guess it was a false alarm. After booting back into my custom kernel,
everything seems to work fine. I have to say, though, that it's a bit
unnerving that Ubuntu can get confused enough to not allow me to become
root.
So, finally, I have security updates available, my SD slot works, my
wireless works natively (without ndiswrapper) and I have enabled root
logins to avoid a similar scare in the future. It must be almost time
to buy a new laptop, eh?
ttyl
srw
Scott Walde wrote:
> Okay, I'm not totally screwed... After a hard power-off (shutdown
> didn't work) I rebooted with the supplied kernel for Gutsy, and sudo
> now works. I'm going to try it again with my custom 2.6.24.3 and see
> if it breaks sudo again. In the mean time, I have given root a password.
>
> ttyl
> srw
>
> Scott Walde wrote:
>> After upgrading my laptop to ubuntu 7.10 (via 7.04) sudo and gksu now
>> fail to work. They sometimes offer a prompt, but don't accept any
>> keyboard input, or fail. Other times they don't even offer a
>> password prompt.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> No, I never did give root a password. I was trying to do things the
>> proper "Ubuntu" way.
>>
>> ttyl
>> srw
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