Sudo: user: command not found

Hi there,
I'm struggling with this sudo problem.
All i've been doing with terminal was logging into another account on my iMac and running an application, so i write sudo disk (disk is username for the other account)
then i enter password and path to the application
i've been doing this for past 3-4 month every day, bet since yesterday after entering pasword i get this error - sudo: user: command not found
Any help here would be appreciated!
Thank you

which sudo returns: /usr/bin/sudo
i used First Aid to verify disk permissions 3 times.. repaired them, but it keeps giving me the same errors every time i hit Verify Disk Permissions..
List of errors:
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/jconsole.ja r", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
User differs on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib", should be 0, user is 95.
User differs on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Libraries", should be 0, user is 95.
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy.bundle/Contents/Resources/JavaPluginCocoa.b undle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar ", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/ Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/ Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/ Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib", should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/ Contents/Resources/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib", should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions verification complete
Are these pretty bad errors? Are these causing sudo not to work?

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Enrico
(osx: 10.8.2)

Open Source installers DO NOT mess with individual user shell initialization scripts. Open Source project may be installed on single user systems, or multi-user systems so to update every possible user's shell initialization files becomes a nightmare. For example which accounts should be updated, and which are daemon accounts that should be left along. Which shell does the user of each account prefer to use? And for some shells, there are multiple different shell initialzation files, so which one does the shell initialzation file select. And if the user already has a PATH environment variable in a shell initializaton file that gets executed AFTER the file the installer choose (.bash_profile vs .bashrc), then all the installers work would be for nothing, and worse confuse the user. And the user already has the directory in PATH, but they are not logged in, does the installer parse all the other user's shell initialzation files to figure out if that user does not need an update PATH, or does it blindly add yet another export PATH to one of the shell initialization files?
Open Source installers worry about the getting the app built and installed. It leaves the user's personal files alone, for very good reasons :-)

[solved] qdbus: command not found = Netbeans can't connect to KWallet

I had a problem with Netbeans using its fallback keyring instead of KWallet.
My research showed that this happened because Netbeans wasn't able to use qdbus
exception thrown while invoking the command "[qdbus, org.kde.kwalletd, /modules/kwalletd, org.kde.KWallet.isEnabled]"
I tried to run qdbus with
qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin supportInformation
Same outcome; qdbus: command not found.
Searching for qdbus, I found it in /usr/lib/qt4/bin which obviously isn't part of $PATH.
I "solved" the issue by creating a softlink in /usr/bin/
cd /usr/bin && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qdbus qdbus
It works, both the KWin command as well as Netbean's KWallet integration, but is that how it should be done?
Haven't I rather a package missing, like qt5 or something?
Or is my standard "throw softlinks at the problem"-procedure alright here?
Last edited by Caldazar (2014-01-25 20:55:02)

Thanks! That's better although it doesn't work out of the box either.
qtchooser apparently sends the applications to '/usr/lib/qt/bin/qdbus' which doesn't exist, Arch uses /usr/lib/qt4' instead
qdbus: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt/bin/qdbus': No such file or directory
So I had to link those too.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/lib/qt
I don't know whether that's a problem with qtchooser or rather with some of my environment variables being wrong.
But anyways, linking the directories 'qt' to 'qt4' makes a whole lot more sense to me than micromanaging the paths of single binaries or libraries.
P.S. @ChemBro
Yes, using qdbus-qt4 seems to work with commands I have control over but telling applications like Netbeans to use that is a different beast, at least from a user-perspective.
Maybe the packagers can do something about that, but I don't know.
Last edited by Caldazar (2014-01-21 15:03:39)

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