Question

/etc/subdoers busy try again later

Posted August 21, 2014

I got an error /etc/subdoers busy try again later when i try to access the visudo command. Please can anyone help me how to resolve this issue?

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lordmasternew • November 1, 2014

type “fg” to return

skyknight1989 • February 24, 2019

@lordmasternew, thank you for your help. fg and then visudo again.

theflash98 • August 8, 2017

I’m having the same issue. I ran sudo visudo once, and then pressed Ctrl+Z. After that when I again ran sudo visudo it said visudo: /etc/sudoers busy, try again later. I tried running killall visudo but it said -bash: killall: command not found nor did sudo killall visudo work as it said sudo: killall: command not found

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zhp172fighting3 • August 8, 2017

Hi , when i tried all the solutions above ,but does not change the result to have this error. Just turn OFF the terminal,than turn on .It works.

theflash98 • August 8, 2017

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Andrew SB • August 21, 2014

Had you already run visudo ? That error indicates that the file is already being edited. First stop the other process with:

killall visudo

Also run visudo -c to make sure that the sudoers file was not corrupted.