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Cant get sudo to recognize passwords

Asked by infernalmage2000

Alrighty from some of the solutions trying to get into the problem and fix it from my terminal without getting into root which im going to be trying next.

ab@ab-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for ab:
sendmail: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop
ab is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
ab@ab-desktop:~$ sudo chown root:root /etc/sudoers
[sudo] password for ab:
sendmail: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop
ab is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
ab@ab-desktop:~$ chown root:root /etc/sudoers
chown: changing ownership of `/etc/sudoers': Operation not permitted
ab@ab-desktop:~$

how do i get around this mess? anyway for me to get my computer back to recognizing my password because im stuck between partial upgrades from edgy, to intrepid via fiesty. But it already said that im in fiesty, and like it passed over intrepid. But in the process of trying to get a stable linux system working it deleted my GStreamer files as well as they are in the update commands but the update manager keeps shutting down.

anyone know a way for me to fix this without installing from ground up the operating system?

thanks much

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#1

Hi,

No answer to your question unfortunately, but my advise would be not to upgrade the system from Synaptic. People here report so many problems! Regular updates are like power packs in Windows, you just change a few things in the system and it is OK. Version update is like switching from Win XP to Vista, nobody would expect a smooth upgrade without reinstalling the system! It is unfortunately the same for Ubuntu, and I don't understand why Ubuntu devs let this possibility in Synaptic. In clear: I am not sure that anyone can expect a multiple upgrade to really work.

As far as I can tell, the safest mode to proceed is to have a separate partition for the /home and to reinstall the rest of the system from scratch, keeping the old /home directory. You don't lose any of your data, but the rest of the system is clean.

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