sudo is not working in x-terminal anymore

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Description

Can't use sudo in x-terminal anymore. It worked previously.
I used be be able to run sudo service foo restart in the terminal, but now all sudo commands fail, even a simple sudo -s fails.

Steps to reproduce

sudo -s

Expected behavior:
[sudo] password for bob:

Actual behavior:
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?

Reproduces how often:
Every time.

Versions

> atom --version

Atom : 1.50.0
Electron: 5.0.13
Chrome : 73.0.3683.121
Node : 12.0.0

> apm --version

apm 2.5.0
npm 6.14.5
node 10.20.1 x64
atom 1.50.0
python 2.7.16
git 2.20.1

OS name and version: Debian 10 Buster (Linux)
Terminal version: 9.1.1

Additional context

sudo works fine in a normal gnome-terminal. If I compare printenv with the x-terminal in atom vs gnome-terminal, the following environment variables are different in the atom x-terminal. (atom x-terminal values are shown)

ATOM_DISABLE_SHELLING_OUT_FOR_ENVIRONMENT=true
ATOM_HOME=/home/bob/.atom
CHROME_DESKTOP=Atom.desktop
DISPLAY=:50.0
SHLVL=3
NODE_PATH=/usr/share/atom/resources/app.asar/exports

[the-j0k3r]

This is an electron 5.x issue see https://github.com/bus-stop/terminus/issues/84

Nothing to be done here,atom/atom#21079 is merged and will fix the issue once Atom releases a production build with electron 6.x

[the-j0k3r]

Also see atom/atom#20819 if interested in bug.