Re: a problem with visudo

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:02:10PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> 
> I tried to edit sudoers with visudo, but I always got an error:
> visudo: /etc/sudoers busy, try again later
> 
> I am very sure that there isn't /etc/sudoers.tmp and I just installed it on my
> system. Does anyone have the same problem? Is it a bug?

Same here.  It seems it has been reported before:
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=30628&aid=303084&atid=411594

I had a quick look at an rpctrace, it opens /etc/sudoers without error,
and then fails without even trying /etc/sudoers.tmp...

Regards,
  Fredrix