Bug 49511 – sudo-1.6.7_p5 looking for the wrong sudoers file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description MAL 2004-04-30 09:02:23 UTC]

$ sudo ls
sudo: can't stat /var/tmp/portage/sudo-1.6.7_p5/image//etc/sudoers: No such file or directory

I think we know what the problem is here :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.24)
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System uname: 2.4.24 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp:
//ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.254/gentoo-portage"
USE="apache2 apm dvdr fbcon mmx sse x86 zlib"

[Comment 1 MAL 2004-04-30 09:06:53 UTC]

Just to confirm that it's the lack of the pam USE flag that causes this.

USE="pam" emerge sudo

and sudo works fine.

[Comment 2 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2004-05-09 02:23:09 UTC]

Sorry I can't reproduce this, try re-emerge sudo.