I restarted ubuntu and the problem does not seem to occur anymore. Sorry for not having restarted the computer to check whether the problem persisted before reporting it. Now I know it for next time.
frafu (now the problem does not occur with sudo, nor with gksudo) -- crash in terminal when sudo command and AT enabled https://launchpad.net/bugs/70636 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs