Here is my problem: I made a migration to jaunty beta from Intrepid, with an .ISO image. Now everything works much however I have a very serious problem: it is impossible to have the command line! if I start gnome-terminal I receive an error like "!" There was an error during the creation of the son process for this terminal! Anyway, all terminal programs give me the same thing: a window without prompt!
I can't installl or reinstall gnome-terminal, because now, in Synaptic I obtain a "failure of cloning pty" message and of course nothing is done.
So, I changed my console with <Ctrl><Alt F3> and I installed using dpkg-i the two gnome-terminal packages from http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/gnome/ . After I run sudo apt-get -f install, and then sudo apt-get update ... And I return on <Ctrl><Alt F7> my gnome desktop but I have always the same. And, Synaptic is too bugged...
Without information I did not know what to do. it'sa shame because it could be very simple ...
So,finally I run an installation and not a migration with a CD (and safeguarding /home before) :( and now all is fine!
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