[Bug 654914] Re: "Become root" causes the activity to close

[Luke Faraone]

apport information

** Tags added: apport-collected

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: sugar-terminal-activity
  
  Steps to reproduce: 
   1. Start terminal activity
   2. Press "become root"
   3. Terminal execs (I think) "su - root"
   4. Hit the "return" key
   5. Terminal closes and the "save activity" dialog entry appears. 
  
- At step 3, "sudo" should have been run. When/if the command fails, a
- segfault should not be the result.
+ At step 3, "sudo" should have been run. When/if the command fails, a segfault should not be the result.
+ --- 
+ Architecture: amd64
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
+ EcryptfsInUse: Yes
+ NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
+ Package: sugar-terminal-activity 28-1
+ PackageArchitecture: all
+ ProcEnviron:
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_US.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
+ Tags:  ubuntu-une maverick
+ Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
+ UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
   https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/654914/+attachment/1672406/+files/Dependencies.txt

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"Become root" causes the activity to close
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654914
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: sugar-terminal-activity

Steps to reproduce: 
 1. Start terminal activity
 2. Press "become root"
 3. Terminal execs (I think) "su - root"
 4. Hit the "return" key
 5. Terminal closes and the "save activity" dialog entry appears. 

At step 3, "sudo" should have been run. When/if the command fails, a segfault should not be the result.
--- 
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: sugar-terminal-activity 28-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Tags:  ubuntu-une maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare