[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#751709: base: root terminal does not open

[John Dannecker]

Package: base
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
	I do not remember doing anything special since the last time the root terminal worked
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
	restart
	normal terminal works, so I tried "su -" "gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator" and "gnome-terminal -e "sudo -i" "
   * What was the outcome of this action?
	restart didnt had any effect
	with "su -" I get "su: Error with authentication" (my system-language is german, so this might be translated wrong)
	with "gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator" I come to the usual window where I have to enter my root passwort. After entering the pw, this window closes and nothing happens
	with "gnome-terminal -e "sudo -i" " I come to a terminal that asks me for a password, and when I enter the superuser password it says "sorry, try again"
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
	
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash