Ubuntu Ibex to Jaunty, now can't launch terminal

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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


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