Comment 6 for bug 55172

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

the sudo process is hanging on a read from stdin.

Here's the ps axf process tree:

13916 ? Sl 0:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager
14387 ? S 0:01 \_ gksu --desktop /usr/share/applications/update-manager.desktop -- /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 60817411 --update-at-sta
14403 ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/sudo -H -S -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS -u root -- /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 60817411 --update-at-startup
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Attached is the strace for gksu