[01:47] <a_beautiful_mime> hello
[01:47] <a_beautiful_mime> my sudo password doesn't seem to be working
[01:47] <a_beautiful_mime> i can login to my account
[01:48] <a_beautiful_mime> but the sudo password doesn't match up
[01:52] <ianorlin> a_beautiful_mime, what happnes if you run groups `whoami` in a terminal does it show you in the sudo group?
[13:20] <a_beautiful_mime> hi
[13:29] <a_beautiful_mime> I can't login to sudo using the terminal
[13:29] <a_beautiful_mime> despite my login password being 110% correct
[13:29] <a_beautiful_mime> what can i do ?
[13:36] <leszek> a_beautiful_mime: can you specify what you tried exactly
[13:47] <a_beautiful_mime> i tried doing sudo apt-get install tor
[13:47] <a_beautiful_mime> i get authentication request
[13:47] <a_beautiful_mime> it tells me password failed
[13:47] <a_beautiful_mime> even though i could log in with this simple password
[13:47] <a_beautiful_mime> i fail all three tries
[13:48] <a_beautiful_mime> if i try to change my password then it tells me password unchanged
[13:48] <a_beautiful_mime> which suggests it is correct ? leszek
[13:48] <leszek> yes
[13:49] <leszek> a_beautiful_mime: did you change something in /etc/sudoers ?
[13:49] <a_beautiful_mime> not sure
[13:50] <a_beautiful_mime> vi /etc/sudoers.d?
[13:51] <a_beautiful_mime> oh it's a directory
[13:51] <a_beautiful_mime> and it's only got a readme in it
[13:52] <a_beautiful_mime> su root
[13:52] <a_beautiful_mime> Password:
[13:52] <a_beautiful_mime> su: Authentication failure
[13:53] <a_beautiful_mime> leszek: ?
[13:53] <leszek> nope I mean the file
[13:53] <a_beautiful_mime> which one
[13:53] <leszek> a_beautiful_mime: /etc/sudoers should be a file
[13:54] <a_beautiful_mime> i tried to vi that
[13:54] <a_beautiful_mime> but it told me permission denied
[13:54] <a_beautiful_mime> this is the only account on the machine
[13:54] <leszek> I asked if you edited something there not if you can open it
[13:54] <a_beautiful_mime> oh
[13:54] <a_beautiful_mime> i don't recall doing so
[13:55] <leszek> groups should show you in what groups you are currently in
[13:55] <leszek> can you execute that and see if you are in the admin group
[13:55] <a_beautiful_mime> i am in sudo group
[13:55] <a_beautiful_mime> and adm
[13:55] <leszek> ok
[13:55] <a_beautiful_mime> adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
[13:55] <leszek> so you should have permission to execute sudo
[13:56] <a_beautiful_mime> ok
[13:56] <leszek> did you try opening up a new terminal. Maybe that one is broken
[13:56] <a_beautiful_mime> doesn't work
[13:57] <a_beautiful_mime> su root authentication failiure
[13:57] <leszek> why su ?
[13:57] <leszek> and not sudo
[13:57] <leszek> ?
[13:58] <a_beautiful_mime> both won't work
[13:59] <leszek> su can't work because root account is deactivated on *buntu
[13:59] <leszek> sudo should work
[13:59] <a_beautiful_mime> sudo didn't work
[13:59] <bioterror> 'sudo su'
[13:59] <leszek> you have the correct keyboard layout set ?
[13:59] <leszek> not accidently have caps lock pressed ?
[14:01] <leszek> a_beautiful_mime: Also try logging in on a tty (CTRL+ALT+F1 for example) with that password and try sudo there
[14:05] <a_beautiful_mime> leszek: it worked
[14:05] <a_beautiful_mime> but no idea why
[14:05] <leszek> a_beautiful_mime: so tty is working X not. Try to logout in X and relogin and see if it works then also
[14:06] <a_beautiful_mime> i've restarted my machine multiple times and had the same problem
[14:15] <leszek> hmm...
[14:16] <holstein> you can always access these files from a live iso, if need be.. but, what *did* you change, a_beautiful_mime ?
[14:17] <holstein> is this the account made during install? when was the install done? is it lubuntu 14.04? 15.04?
[14:18] <holstein> open a terminal, and input "sudo -s" and share the output..
[14:18] <holstein> !paste
[14:44] <a_beautiful_mime> ok
[14:45] <a_beautiful_mime> holstein: all i get is sorry try again
[14:49] <tobbsen> ahoy. it seems to me that lubuntu 14.04 shuts down too fast. applications left open like firefox show me that they have crashed after starting them again after reboot and sometimes the pc cannot recover from suspend mode
[14:50] <a_beautiful_mime> how can I configure a global socks4 proxy (tor) in ubuntu ?
[22:21] <BeeblePete> heyo
[22:23] <BeeblePete> Just booted a PC I'd put lubuntu on in 2013. Seems like although my browsers and ping can find IPs, synaptic can't. I have tried Main Server and others, to no avail. Does this sound like a know issue?
[22:31] <ianorlin> BeeblePete, what version if it 13.04 of 14.10 they unforetantly are eol
[22:32] <ianorlin> but 14.04 is long term support if you don't want to upgrade that much
[22:35] <BeeblePete> yeah 13.04 unfortunately. This is a backup machine so it's not too much of a tragedy to have to wipe it. In this day and age do I need to burn a disc or can I go into LXterminal and subvert the current OS with a new one?
[22:36] <ianorlin> BeeblePete, backup your data and maybe install 14.04 on it
[22:36] <ianorlin> Is what I would do
[22:36] <ianorlin> and then only do LTS to LTS updates
[22:36] <BeeblePete> no data to backup really
[22:37] <ianorlin> there are also usb installation options but some older motherboards don't boot off that
[22:37] <BeeblePete> gotcha