[ubuntu-za] NETBOOK CRASH

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, vincent wrote:

> Their solutions all involve changing ownership and since the netbook
> went down, I keep getting a message in terminal whenever I use sudo that
> says "sudo: must be setuid root" and wont let me in as root.Doesn't even
> ask for a password. 

What is the result of "ls -l /usr/bin/sudo" ?

Mine replies :-

-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 127664 2010-08-31 22:39 /usr/bin/sudo

Note the first "s", and "root root".

Cheers,     Andy!