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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Visibility changed to: Public

** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831156

Title:
  unable to type passward for m-player codecs ie sundo in the terminal
  window

Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  i wannted the codecs of m-player for ubuntu 10.10.
  i have downloaded it from mediaupload.com.
  when i extract all the files and run the file name instal.sh the terminal window opens and ask continue(y/n):
  i type y
  and the password is asked in the terminal window
  [sundo]password for gaurav:
  the i type the password "sundo" as per the instruction of installing it but nothing is happening ie whatever i type nothing appers on terminal window.
  please help any one who read this as i am new to use this type of os.
  please help.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Aug 22 09:34:26 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.utf8
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal

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