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Not sure if you have a complete distro. Gnome terminal works fine on my laptop. I can SSH into and out of it, as well as execute thunderbird remotely. I don't remember which version of Ubuntu I started with on my laptop, (64-bit AMD), but things pretty much work through several upgrade= s On 06/22/2009 10:41 AM, david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote: >> Hi. I just updated my work laptop from Intrepid to Jaunty (i686) usin= g >> Update Manager. Most things seem to work fine (pulseaudio failed to >> allocate shared memory pool, etc), but my big problem is when I launch= >> Gnome terminal, I get a dialog box saying "There was an error creatin= g >> the child process for this terminal". This is true for the default >> profile, or SSHing to another box. >> >> I tried to use Synaptic to install konsole, and it said "Error failed = to >> fork pty". >> =20 > > Some more testing: > I tried launching konsole, and I don't get a prompt. Switching to a te= xt > tty, I can see my shell is /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, and I can run "bas= h" > and "sudo bash" from that text tty. Interestingly, running emacs in X,= I > can M-x shell and get a shell, but if I type "bash -v" in that shell, i= t > hangs. > > But this proves emacs is an operating system, not an editor. > > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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