Comment 42 for bug 338071

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mooli (sam-phillips) wrote :

Same here,

a)open console,
b)hold CTRL, ALT and push F1
c)login as root user
d)sudo su
e)add this line to my /etc/fstab file to resolve issue...

devpts /dev/pts devpts noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
f) type mount -a
g)hold CTRL, ALT and push F1 to get back into the console mode (or just type exit, then type exit again).
h)open terminal

NO REBOOT REQUIRED

Also, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and got the same error, this broke my ability to SSH to the server as well.