Comment 60 for bug 338071

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 338071] Re: update manager "Error failed to fork pty"

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 20:48 +0000, humufr wrote:

> Scott I am sorry but my brother in law do have this problem and I did
> the install when I gave him the laptop and I KNOW that I just did a
> basic installation of hardy. After he did, before asking me or I would
> have stop him, did the upgrade to intrepid (he doesn't know anything
> about OS so he didn't touch anything) and after I did the last upgrade
> and I didn't have this message but even if would have it I always ask to
> install the maintener versions. So your two reasons which basically said
> that the user is the only responsible of this problem and that ubuntu
> doesn't have any responsabilities is a little bit exagerated for my
> point of view. I cannot access through ssh to this computer anymore,
> thanks to this bug, so my brother in law which live 3000 km away from me
> will have a risky computer for months (no possibility to install any
> upgrade). He is not able to do anything in the system and he is scared
> to messed up things.
>
There is no evidence that this problem has *ever* been caused by
anything other than modifying system files in /etc - combined with not
responding to conffile upgrade issues.

The most common "modification" appears to be trying to
enable /proc/bus/usb, assumedly for software the user wants - various
forum posts on the Internet wrongly recommend this.

Scott
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