SSH results in "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"
Bug #332517 reported by
Piotr Szczepanik
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #321927: /dev/pts and /dev/shm not mounted on boot.
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Bug Description
Jaunty alpha with 0.8.0.1 Do and 0.8.0.2 plugins
When I try to connect to ssh servers using mentioned above version of Gnome Do it opens terminal, but terminal shows a message "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal" and stays blank.
It was working properly in Intrepid.
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I have a similar problem after doing an upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 beta.
Attempting to start gnome-terminal results in an error message saying "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal". And I'm left with an unusable window where my bash shell should be.
SSH'ing into the box results in an error:
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Dropping into a console and attempting to run an xterm results in a similar problem:
michael@desktop:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
michael@desktop:~$ xterm
xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
Readon: get_pty: not enough ptys
or starting a gnome-terminal from the console:
michael@desktop:~$ gnome-terminal
Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.
This is the second machine I upgraded to the beta. My laptop (the first machine) does not have this problem, so I am not sure what is different that would cause this problem to occur now.