| 2007-04-09 19:45:36 |
jcfp |
gnome-terminal: statusexplanation |
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Thank you for your report. This problem is not a bug but user error. Sudo manual ("man sudo" in your terminal) will inform you that 'The -b (background) option tells sudo to run the given command in the background'. Using this option will ask for your password in the foreground, and then run the process ("nautilus" in your case) in the background and give you back your terminal.
Your method of using "&" puts the sudo process itself in the background, which makes it impossible to enter the password. It is sudo's pid that is printed; sudo then waits in the background for the password that never comes. Anything you type ("qwerty") next gets interpreted as a new command.
It is also no surprise that it works if you first properly use sudo for something else, since in that case, no password is required for some time after. Thus sudo can run succesfully without any user input. |
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