My Sudo Broke

[ghostdawg]

Recently when I do a sudo apt-get upgrade command, I get the following message below:

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Reading changelogs... Done
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

Then I just do a su - and type password and it will upgrade/update without further issue. Is my sudo broke? If so, how can I fix it?

Thanks.

[zerozero]

the solution is here

[ghostdawg]

Thanks again.

[jeffreyC]

Some people say to always accept the new sudoers file but having been unable to become root after doing so, I no longer do.
I had to use a rescue live CD to replace it with my old one. Glad I have the habit of saving a copy of files I change.
But this bit me too.

[zerozero]

jeffreyC, i usually don't accept the new conf. files (specially related with sudo) and didn't either this time , but anyway it broke, i ended up with a sudoers like this http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 20#p469221, so something was very wrong in this sudo update