Re: Ubuntu Ibex to Jaunty, now can't launch terminal

>> Hi.  I just updated my work laptop from Intrepid to Jaunty (i686) using
>> Update Manager.  Most things seem to work fine (pulseaudio failed to
>> allocate shared memory pool, etc), but my big problem is when I launch
>> Gnome terminal, I get a dialog box saying  "There was an error creating
>> the child process for this terminal".  This is true for the default
>> profile, or SSHing to another box.
>>
>> I tried to use Synaptic to install konsole, and it said "Error failed to
>> fork pty".
>>    
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> Some more testing:
> I tried launching konsole, and I don't get a prompt.  Switching to a text
> tty, I can see my shell is /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, and I can run "bash"
> and "sudo bash" from that text tty.  Interestingly, running emacs in X, I
> can M-x shell and get a shell, but if I type "bash -v" in that shell, it
> hangs.
>
> But this proves emacs is an operating system, not an editor.
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