Sudo is slow in F11

[Crunchy Carrot]

Hey all. This is my first time using Fedora. After using Ubuntu and finding it way too unstable, Opensuse and finding it bloated, Arch and finding it confusing, I have finally settled on Fedora 11.

The problem that I am having is a minor annoyance. I found that my default user couldn't use Sudo, so I added the following to the sudoers file:

USER_NAME ALL=(ALL) ALL

-- Where User_Name is the the name of my default user.

The problem is that I can now use sudo but it is incredibly slow. For example if I type sudo yum install _____

It'll ask me for my password and then pause for a minute or two literally before proceeding. It isn't the network causing this problem because it does the same thing if I issue commands that are specific to files only on my computer. Interestingly enough I don't have this problem if I use tty, only in Konsole.\

Edit: in case it isn't obvious I'm running KDE (whichever version is default on an F11 x64 DVD).

[Crunchy Carrot]

Fixed. Apparently your hosts file becomes corrupted if you change your hostname during dvd installation. Repairing this file (adding your hostname) not only makes sudo work speedily, it also solves laggy firefox problems!

[SpectrumDT]

I am having the same problem: sudo is extremely slow.

But I do not understand what the fix is. My /etc/hosts looks like this:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

I have tried to change it to this

127.0.0.1 Spectrum
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

... or this:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.0.1 Spectrum

... where "Spectrum" is my host name (as reported by calling "hostname" from a command line).

Both the above attempts results in Linux refusing to start up.

How is /etc/hosts supposed to look?

Thanks in advance.

[Hlingler]

Here's mine (unique machine name omitted):

127.0.0.1       <machine-name>.localdomain    localhost.localdomain   localhost       <machine-name>

So you might try:

127.0.0.1       Spectrum.localdomain    localhost.localdomain   localhost       Spectrum

Re-start of network service daemon required.

V

[SpectrumDT]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Here's mine (unique machine name omitted):

127.0.0.1       <machine-name>.localdomain    localhost.localdomain   localhost       <machine-name>

So you might try:

127.0.0.1       Spectrum.localdomain    localhost.localdomain   localhost       Spectrum

Thanks. I will try that.

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Re-start of network service daemon required.

What process is that? Can it be restarted without a full reboot?

[Hlingler]

I am assuming that you are using the 'network' service daemon and not 'NetworkManager'. In either case:
su -
service network restart

Or:
su -
service NetworkManager restart

V

[SpectrumDT]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

I am assuming that you are using the 'network' service daemon and not 'NetworkManager'. In either case:
su -
service network restart

Or:
su -
service NetworkManager restart

V

I am using NetworkManager.

This worked. Now sudo is fast again. Thanks for the help.