Ubuntu Ibex to Jaunty, now can't launch terminal

[dj_segfault]

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".

Any clues?

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[dj_segfault]

> 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".

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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[Jerry Feldman-2]

Not sure if you have a complete distro. Gnome terminal works fine on my
laptop. I can SSH into and out of it, as well as execute thunderbird
remotely. I don't remember which version of Ubuntu I started with on my
laptop, (64-bit AMD), but things pretty much work through several upgrades

On 06/22/2009 10:41 AM, david@... wrote:

>> 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".
>>    
>
> 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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