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regarding gnome-terminal: Root terminal doesn't launch
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.12.0-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I'm not sure if this is a problem with this package as such, but I couldn't
find the other one. Recently, 'Root Terminal' does not launch. It brings up the
dialogue asking for my password, and then after I have given that, it briefly
looks like it is loading it, but nothing happens. It doesn't ask for my
password further times, as if it believes that it has already launched it. This
has meant that I had to create a whole new administrators user account to be
able to use a terminal (apart from tty), as gnome-terminal won't allow sudo
access to a standard account. It used to just launch like a normal terminal.
Maybe the program is /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator.
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.20.0-2
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-2
ii gnome-terminal-data 3.12.0-2
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.18-5
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libdconf1 0.20.0-2
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.1-1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.8.2-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.7
ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.8.2-1
ii gvfs 1.20.1-1+b1
ii yelp 3.12.0-1
gnome-terminal suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
--- End Message ---
