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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.