Comment 2 for bug 719346

And now, my prior workaround (clicking settings first) for it is no longer working.

The problem has also appeared for Root Terminal - no password prompt - just dies silently.
The hung processes appear in a pstree -p list and I have to kill them.

I've gone to using X-terminal and then using sudo - truly annoying and time wasting.
I have no clue whatsoever as to why this is failing.