pressing 'e' closes x-terminal-emulator when issued with gksu root

[lordskid]

I have changed my menu to include the open terminal as root.

The command used by the menu shortcut is "gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator"

Just for fun I key-in sudo su and then my password.

after which I press 'e' this closes the terminal.

[Rich Wareham (richwareham)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you reply with the name of the terminal emulator which is run by x-terminal-emulator. For example, on my system this is gnome-terminal which does not crash when I perform the steps above.

[lordskid (dickey-ko)]

I believe I am using gnome terminal. On Ubuntu Hardy,
System -> Preferences -> Main Menu
Under system tools I enabled the 'Root Terminal'
Then Under
Applications -> System Tools
I click Root Terminal.
Then I issue the command:
'root@ubuntu: /home/me# sudo su'
the prompt changes to:
'root@ubuntu: /home/me# root@ubuntu: /home/me#'
this is where when I press 'e' (actually I wanted to type 'exit') that
the terminal closes by itself.

I am a newbie so if you need some system info please tell me how to
obtain them. Thanks for the quick response although over-all my ubuntu
system is usable so it is really not a big issue. I just want to help in
my own little way.

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:36 +0000, Rich Wareham wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you reply with the name of the
> terminal emulator which is run by x-terminal-emulator. For example, on
> my system this is gnome-terminal which does not crash when I perform the
> steps above.
>

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[lordskid (dickey-ko)]

I tried what you have instructed me to do, but my /var/crash directory is
empty. even if I ls -a, or show hidden files in nautilus. Is it possible
that something in bash would make the terminal issue an exit command?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or
> challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these
> instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be
> dealt with by the automatic retracer.
>
> If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch
> nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on
> the crash report you wish to submit.
>
> I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will
> automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more
> efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> pressing 'e' closes x-terminal-emulator when issued with gksu root
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276168
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in "gnome-terminal" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I have changed my menu to include the open terminal as root.
>
> The command used by the menu shortcut is "gksu
> /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator"
>
> Just for fun I key-in sudo su and then my password.
>
> after which I press 'e' this closes the terminal.
>