Root shell terminates after first keystroke

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Root shell terminates after first keystroke
\ Tim (22 Mar 2008)
. \ Eric Martin (22 Mar 2008)
. . \ Tim (22 Mar 2008)

Subject:	Root shell terminates after first keystroke
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Tim
Date:	22 Mar 2008

Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when
I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time
I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try
looks like this (I begin to type "emerge", with little success):

tim@wozniak ~ $ sudo su
wozniak tim # eexit
tim@wozniak ~ $

This occurs no matter how long I wait before hitting a key. Using 'su'
without the preceding 'sudo' will let me into a normal root shell
without the problem occurring. The problem also occurs only in Konsole,
not at a tty. I should mention, based on this, that I'm running KDE4.
How might I go about fixing this?
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