Package: sudo
Version: 1.8.21-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
After an upgrade from 1.8.20p2-1 sudo became somewhat unusable:
[…]
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
[master 2a7cfae] committing changes in /etc after apt run
9 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
rename rc0.d/{K01avahi-daemon => K02avahi-daemon} (100%)
rename rc1.d/{K01avahi-daemon => K02avahi-daemon} (100%)
rename rc6.d/{K01avahi-daemon => K02avahi-daemon} (100%)
sudo: obsolete-conffile /etc/sudoers.dist
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file
'/home/tglase/Projekte/DebTarent/dists/sid/wtf/Pkgs/mksh/mksh_56b+wtf1_x32.deb'
couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo rm /etc/sudoers.dist
[sudo] password for tglase:
^Ctglase@tglase:~ $ sudo -K
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo rm /etc/sudoers.dist
[sudo] password for tglase:
rm: cannot remove '/etc/sudoers.dist': No such file or directory
1|tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo ls
Bilder Lesen U libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze16.diff.gz licenses
sirc.log uw-imap y
GPX Projekte UU libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze16.dsc mail stuff
x
Kana TODO UUU libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg.orig.tar.gz mbsd tmp
x-git
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo true
^[[A
^Ctglase@tglase:~ $
Basically, sometimes, it doesn’t come back from the command
(confirmed by running “sudo ls” a couple of times in succession)
making it unreliable and impossible to use from a script.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libaudit1 1:2.7.7-1+b2
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.6
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b2
ii lsb-base 9.20170808
sudo recommends no packages.
sudo suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sudoers [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers'
/etc/sudoers.d/README [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers.d/README'
/etc/sudoers.dist [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sudoers.dist'
-- no debconf information