Bug#748496: gnome-terminal: Root terminal doesn't launch

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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.

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