Bug 630108 – =app-admin/sudo-1.8.21_p1 cannot run commands as UID=0

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-09-06 18:58:36 UTC]

Created attachment 492880 [details]
build.log.gz

After upgrading to 1.8.21 (including _p1)

sudo ls

produces no output.

sudo -u root ls 

produces no output

sudo -u portage ls

works

sudo -s -u portage 

works

sudo -s -u root

simply returns me to the same prompt.

additionally, things like:

sudo -u portage whoami 

Managed to *hang* periodically needing ^C interference.

I'm not able to debug this further as adding debugging instructions to sudo.conf doesn't say anything interesting, and running sudo under strace breaks sudo.

But suffice to say based on upgrading/downgrading a bunch of times, all I can determine is 1.8.21 is very broken and should probably not be installable, and I've had to downgrade to 1.8.20_p2 to be able to continue working.

[Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-09-06 18:59:56 UTC]

Created attachment 492882 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2017-09-08 10:10:40 UTC]

Please try with =app-admin/sudo-1.8.21_p2 and report back if that fixes your issues.

[Comment 3 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-09-09 12:13:19 UTC]

_p2 fixes this.

[Comment 4 Steve Arnold 2017-09-09 17:19:08 UTC]

Yay, now I don't need to comment on this bug...  Er, wait I just did...