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  1. Bug #1562419
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Comment 2 for bug 1562419

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kos (kos00) wrote : Re: Unable to set a number with a fractional part as the value to the timestamp_timeout option in /etc/sudoers

Ok, the issue seems to be related to the locale in use.

Namely this seems to be happening when using Italian locale (possibly other locales will be affected as well), where commas (as opposed to dots) are used to separate the decimal part of a figure.

Booting the ISOs of Trusty / Unity, Wily / Unity and Wily / GNOME choosing Italian as the language the issue is always present, while booting choosing English as the language the issue is never present.

So to reproduce: simply boot one of the Trusty / Unity, Wily / Unity or Wily / GNOME ISOs (most likely all other ISOs will be affected as well) choosing Italian as the language, open Terminal, run sudo visudo, add a line "Defaults timestamp_timeout=2.5", save, exit and try to run a sudo command (e.g. sudo -l).