Initial install failing - sudoers related

[richeyward]

Hey Luke.
I installed a fresh build of Arch using pacstrap, etc. From that fresh build I ran LARBS which executed without errors. startx however threw a few errors so I knew something wasn't installed correctly.

Looking at the source, I see the manual install of yay, which was not installed on my host post script run, so I knew something was broken. Replicating the steps in the script manually, I saw that the pacman installed apps installed fine.

Yay's manual install however showed an interesting error:

sudo -u "" tar -zvf yay.tar.gz
"root is not in the sudoers file...."
It appears that the sudoers file is missing the following line....

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

Adding and rerunning LARBS seems to fix the issue,

[LukeSmithxyz]

I'm not quite sure how root ALL=(ALL) ALL wasn't in your sudoers file. LARBS only temporarily adds some lines to to the sudoers file, but doesn't delete any. I assume that when you write sudo -i "" you are omitting the username? Of course it shouldn't work if $name isn't defined by the script.

Did you do anything irregular in your original Arch install? Did you install sudo manually? Or base-devel?

[richeyward]

Hi Luke. Firstly, correction on the sudo -u"" above. The users username was in there, just the formatting in Github omitted it so it looks blank. The newly created user's name was in there.

Secondly, I recreated my steps... I installed Arch using the iso live image and pacstrap (base), and it seems that /etc/sudoers doesn't exist as sudo wasn't installed....

Manually installing sudo added the line by default, THEN running LARBS works.

For reference, I used the Arch install docs here.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Okay. LARBS does explicitly install base-devel at the beginning now which should pull sudo... I'll double check this when i can.

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On December 16, 2018 6:04:47 PM EST, Richey Ward ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Luke. Firstly, correction on the` sudo -u""` above. The users username was in there, just the formatting in Github omitted it so it looks blank. The newly created user's name was in there. Secondly, I recreated my steps... I installed Arch using the iso live image and pacstrap (base), and it seems that /etc/sudoers doesn't exist as sudo wasn't installed.... Manually installing sudo added the line by default, THEN running LARBS works. For reference, I used the Arch install docs [here.](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide) -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #67 (comment)

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[krook1024]

I've just experienced this too when installing it on my X230. It's strange because I didn't have this issue when I installed LARBS on my T530 just two days ago.

I resolved this with doing pacman -Rscn sudo then pacman -S sudo it and editing /etc/sudoers manually, then proceeding with installing LARBS, but with the sudoers file editing method commented out. It works fine now.

[LukeSmithxyz]

I realized today that I had misordered something in the script to cause this problem, bit I've also added a failsafe that should copy over the newly produced sudoers file if there are any problems.