Walter, This recipe should permit reproducing the crashes from your intrepid system; if you can confirm this to be the case, we can go from there on trying to get debugging information out of it.
$ sudo chroot /media/disk su <username> $ sudo -s where <username> is the name of your admin user on the Ubuntu 8.10 install. That will let us see if sudo is crashing within the 8.10 installation. -- silent login/gdm failures and sudo segfaults with smbpasswd enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292791 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