-I just rebooted my Notebook with a current Manjaro on and since then I cannot use sudo anymore.
but I always get “Das hat nicht funktioniert, bitte nochmal probieren.”
Of course I know the password, there’s no Capslock or other stuff, and I even tried resetting the password, to no avail.
I checked the few requirements of which I knew and found:
-sudo group disappeared
-sudo group is commented out in sudoers file
I recreated the sudo group, added my user to the group and enabled sudo group in sudoers file
I tried checking the log file, but the path names I found online don’t seem to apply. I could not find a sudo log
I removed and reinstalled sudo from ‘software’
Have you been copying .pacnew files over existing files?
You may be able to salvage your system if you have working copies of /etc/group and /etc/passwd
Verify the following files exist and has the desired content - please note the appended dash in the filename - it is a backup created by the system - created every time you change the files
/etc/group-
/etc/passwd-
If those files has the expected content - especially verify if your username is found in the line of the wheel group - then simply copy those files to their original names - which is without the dash (‘-’).
$ cat /etc/group- | grep wheel
This will require root - so use su to change to root and do the copy.
su
But - please do make sure what you are doing - and if at all in doubt - make backups first like this
Just checked sudoers file for the ‘wheel’ group.
‘wheel’ was commented out for no reason, I uncommented the 'wheel line, but it still doesn’t work.
I did not do anything with the packet manager or authentication files. I was busy configure a printer in cups when I rebooted.
I just made backups of all 4 files and replaced the standard group and passwd with their ‘-’ copies. Now rebooting.
(And probably it worked without rebooting, because I realized that otherwise “sudo reboot” wouldn’t have worked )
Can you tell me what went wrong there? Is it just a matter of quantum fluctuation, where maybe ECC-RAM would have helped? Or is there any bugged software that corrupted the password/group file (without a reason, because I didn’t make any changes there, so no process should be writing to these files…)
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