[Bug 313947] Re: Terminal emulators can not start a bash shell in 2.6.28-4

[Percherie]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 321927 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321927

Hello everyone,

I had this problem this morning and it is the corruption of the file /
etc / group that no longer contained the list of user privileges. If the
file is correct, another investigation found that at the end of comment.

Here is the file before the correction:

root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
audio:x:29:pulse,percherie,timidity
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
gnats:x:41:
games:x:60:
nogroup:x:65534:
libuuid:x:101:
syslog:x:102:
messagebus:x:106:
avahi-autoipd:x:110:
avahi:x:111:
couchdb:x:113:
haldaemon:x:114:
saned:x:116:
pulse:x:117:
gdm:x:119:
percherie:x:1000:percherie
timidity:x:121:
debian-tor:x:122:

And after the correction (replace user percherie by your name):

root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:percherie
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:percherie
fax:x:21:percherie
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:percherie
floppy:x:25:
tape:x:26:percherie
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:pulse,timidity,percherie
dip:x:30:percherie
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:
video:x:44:percherie
sasl:x:45:
plugdev:x:46:percherie
staff:x:50:
games:x:60:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
libuuid:x:101:
syslog:x:102:
fuse:x:103:percherie
lpadmin:x:104:percherie
ssl-cert:x:105:
messagebus:x:106:
crontab:x:107:
mlocate:x:108:
ssh:x:109:
avahi-autoipd:x:110:
avahi:x:111:
netdev:x:112:percherie
couchdb:x:113:
haldaemon:x:114:
admin:x:115:percherie
saned:x:116:
pulse:x:117:
pulse-access:x:118:
gdm:x:119:
percherie:x:1000:percherie
sambashare:x:120:percherie
polkituser:x:121:
timidity:x:122:
debian-tor:x:124:
vboxusers:x:123:root,percherie
winbindd_priv:x:125:

If this file is correct, you can boot into recovery mode and edit the file /ect/sudoers with command visudo
  export EDITOR=vi && sudo visudo

And add after
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

This ligne
<your_username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

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Terminal emulators can not start a bash shell in 2.6.28-4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313947
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