I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and confirm this issue. This was an upgrade from freshly installed 8.10 on a 2nd gen. Macbook, and no tampering by me that would cause this.
There are some related reports, I didn't assign a "duplicate" because this page has the error message that I got. I am no expert but this is what I found. This problem seems to be caused by the filesystem at /dev/pty not being available. It is possible to make /dev/pty available by changing /etc/fstab (works, should not be necessary) or changing setup to make it available at the right time in the boot process. Diagnostic: Looked in /etc/rcS.d using Nautilus, the link S11mountdevsubfs.sh is not there. There is a link S03mountdevsubfs.sh (so maybe the system tries to make it available too early?). Manual solution: To make the S11 link, I pressed ALT+F2 and typed: gksudo ln -s /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh /etc/rcS.d/S11mountdevsubfs.sh After a restart, the problem was gone. Afterwards, I removed the link S03mountdevsubfs.sh and found no difference with or without it, as long as the S11 was there. Sorry developers, only a diagnostic and a solution, not the cause. -- Error while creating child process in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
