Hi,
I am having a similar problem, however the solution suggested above doesn't appear to work for me. I believe this is due to a fault in my sudoer file, but I'm not computer expert!
When typing 'sudo echo hello' into terminal I receive the following message:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
-bash-3.2$
Please can you help me?!