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awacs
April 26th, 2009, 06:00 PM
After a Jaunty upgrade, terminal launches but errors:
"There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"
There's this in the logs (not the same time as the errors):
"Apr 20 22:54:38 laptop x-session-manager[5196]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'gnome-volume-manager.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager" (No such file or directory) "
and the folder /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager does not exist.
I'm able to execute sh, /bin/sh, and bash from the console.
can anyone help me with my problems?
thanks.
dm6257
April 27th, 2009, 12:47 AM
I also experienced this problem. Also the tracker index problem that many have reported on. And cannot run Synaptic package manager. Get error -- failed to fork pty.
Should I submit a bug ticket?
Thanks,
DM6257
awacs
April 27th, 2009, 01:41 AM
Ah! I have that prob, too - and solving it lets terminal work. You have to rename Sxxmountdevsubfs.sh. See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/insserv/+bug/321927
ka1axy
April 27th, 2009, 08:18 PM
I had this problem (both the terminal not creating a child process and the Synaptic pty error, as well as errors trying to automatically index my file system) after upgrading from Hardy->Intrepid->Jaunty.
From a a CTRL-ALT-F1 terminal session, I did this:
sudo cp /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh.dpkg-dist /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
and rebooted. Problem solved.
The bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/insserv/+bug/321927) mentions VirtualBox, which I do have installed (the non-free version).
Regards,
Peter
nspur
May 7th, 2009, 06:51 PM
I had this problem (both the terminal not creating a child process and the Synaptic pty error, as well as errors trying to automatically index my file system) after upgrading from Hardy->Intrepid->Jaunty.
From a a CTRL-ALT-F1 terminal session, I did this:
sudo cp /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh.dpkg-dist /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
and rebooted. Problem solved.
The bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/insserv/+bug/321927) mentions VirtualBox, which I do have installed (the non-free version).
Regards,
Peter
Thank you very much for that solution. It was driving me mad.
regards
Nick
Undvargr
May 9th, 2009, 09:37 PM
I had this problem (both the terminal not creating a child process and the Synaptic pty error, as well as errors trying to automatically index my file system) after upgrading from Hardy->Intrepid->Jaunty.
From a a CTRL-ALT-F1 terminal session, I did this:
sudo cp /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh.dpkg-dist /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
and rebooted. Problem solved.
The bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/insserv/+bug/321927) mentions VirtualBox, which I do have installed (the non-free version).
Regards,
Peter
I, too had this problem, which your solution fixed. Many thanks.
Patrick
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