Comment 2 for bug 433827

...A bug that is deterministically reproducible and prevents everyone affected from installing or upgrading any packages whatsoever, with no useful error message, is importance "Low"?

I'm sorry -- I don't want to be one of those hysterical bug commenters. I just do want to make sure that I've been clear about the actual impact of this bug.

AFAICT, users with an auto-configured proxy (e.g., most university users with a library proxy, various corporate users, etc.) simply *cannot install* upgrades, bug fixes, security fixes, etc., without a manual workaround. 'apt-get' doesn't work. Update manager doesn't work. Once someone is affected by this bug, they will not receive whatever fix is eventually released. The longer it persists, the more users will get "stuck" like this.

Also, as noted above, it isn't actually a bug in gnome-terminal, but in whatever program is responsible for setting up the environment for panel-launched programs. gnome-session? gnome-panel? I'm not sure.