Comment 3 for bug 508089

To reproduce on Lucid desktop:

1. Open synaptic. Search and find 'apt-file'
2. Select for installation and install

Once installation you will presented with a dialog box that asks you to press a button and perform the update action.

3. Click on button 'Run this action now'

You will see a terminal appear.

What happens:

You see an empty terminal and receive the following error message "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"

What should happen:

This terminal should ask for the sudo password within it and once done should then run the update process in this terminal.

Note: Running the command 'sudo apt-file update' in a new terminal does work.