Severe sudo problems

I did a pacman -Syu yesterday after not updating for about a month. The 2.6.31 kernel didn't recognize my wireless card (uses rt2780--similar problem to http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82589) so I rolled back to 2.6.30, leaving everything else the same. Now the wireless works but running sudo causes the terminal to freeze--no Ctrl-C or any other input is accepted. This happens in both the login tty and urxvt. There is also some strange behavior with Firefox (starts but freezes as soon as I click anything) and some occasional problems starting X (hangs on xauth). A lot of other things work normally (xmonad seems to be working ok) so I can't put my finger on the problem. Any suggestions as to which particular packages I could roll back? Or, alternatively, regarding the wireless issue, so I could upgrade to the new kernel again?
I am running xmonad but still have GNOME installed. Architecture is x86_64.

your symptoms sound alot like these issues: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 84#p574584
which was a bug in rt2870 ( http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13638 ) that should have been fixed in kernel 2.6.31.
2.6.31 does work for me with rt2870.

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Last edited by Ferhiord (2007-12-08 15:19:12)

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