Strange issue: sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?

[dgarciam]

That is what i meant. I read that apt dist-upgrade is a no-no on xbian. Will have it clear next time, but after so many years on debian and then ubuntu, habits die hard.

The problem is (at least to my knowledge. I admit being a noob to btfrs) i can't roll back a snapshot w/o root access. Sudo is not working, and the password i previously set for root i can't use it using su - anymore (worked at the time of set up).

I tried to make a cronjob that would call a non root bash script that would list the snapshots available, and then i could modify to restore any snapshot i wanted, but i accidentally chmod +s the script as root and of course i wasn't able to modify the script anymore

(8th Sep, 2016 07:32 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(8th Sep, 2016 06:05 AM)dgarciam Wrote:  First was running stable version and now running devel (upgrade via apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt upgrade, which i learned today was the best way).

That was bad idea. Look to FAQ, section Why should I not use apt-get

Enabling devel repo and sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get upgrade is enough

Hmmm, still not clear what exactly happened.

But anyway, for those situations we have snapshots. They allows easy and fast restoring to a previous working point. Before you install packages via apt-get (but not with dpkg), system makes a snapshot of your / fs. This works really great, there is only one limitation: /boot partition is not preserved, you have to keep this mind when kernel is updated

Quote:After I rebooted a couple times w/o problems. Let's hope this time i won't have the problem. In 6 months i will enable the sources, do an upgrade and see how all goes.

Finally, installed plexserver. So, i have running and working normally: kodi, sickbeard, nzget, plexserver, couchpotato.

Sorry to not be able to bring more info at the moment, and just rant. But honestly, the last 2 weeks were nasty.

But you have working system again, that's the most important

Thanks for your (willingness to) help anyways.

Dan.-