Sudo Issue

[mmm11105]

Got this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...do/+bug/234727
(Sudo seg-fault)

Someone's made a .patch to fix it but I can't figure out how to install it.

Help Please I never got a chance to install some important software

Some one on the Ubuntu forums posted this
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Code:
cd ~/Desktop

apt-get source sudo

cd sudo*

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21261955/sudo.patch -O- | patch -p1

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
If it fails to build because of missing build-deps, you'll have to reboot into recovery mode and go into "Root Terminal with Networking".
Code:
apt-get build-dep sudo
You will also require the use of recovery mode to install the application too.
Code:
cd /home/username/Desktop/
dpkg -i sudo*deb
Regards
Iain
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But it didn't work as explained here

When I boot to the recovery Menu there is no "Root Terminal with Networking Option"

apt-get source sudo Returns this

mmlinux@mmlinux:~/Desktop$ apt-get source sudo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 620kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main sudo 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu2.1 (dsc) [1135B]
Get:2 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main sudo 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu2.1 (tar) [594kB]
Get:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main sudo 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu2.1 (diff) [25.4kB]
Fetched 620kB in 1s (402kB/s)
sh: dpkg-source: not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x sudo_1.6.9p17-1ubuntu2.1.dsc' failed.
Check that the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
E: Child process failed

[sr71000]

First off what version of ubuntu are you running?

Second, what exactly are you trying to do? I don't know that I can outright fix the sudo problem but it seems it only fails on a subset of commands. There may be a workaround here.

-Kevin

[GroundZero3]

did you do a apt-get update or upgrade to see if they released an update?

[sr71000]

from the bug report a lot of people report sudo crashing when you run apt-get. lol. Doesn't that suck.