Anyone? Gnome terminal: error creating the child process

[mdg583]

Can anyone help me with this? Gnome-terminal says:


There was an error creating the child process for this terminal


I've looked this up, and find a bunch of stuff, but not much for a good solution. Something about /dev/pts not being mounted, but I assume that would be linux only. The other idea is that a permission is wrong somewhere. (in /dev, I assume?)

I tried compiling with debugging, and found vte (vte.c, pty.c) DOES look for /dev/ptmx or/dev/ptc, neither of which are present on my system. Does anyone know if they should be there?

If I run gnome-terminal as root, it works. For any user, including a brand new user, it doesn't work. I just installed xfce4 Terminal, and it doesn't work either.


This wasn't working under gnome-terminal 2.22.3, and now I upgraded to 2.24, and it still isn't working.

my fstab looks like this:

# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

I've made no changes to devfs.conf

Thanks if anyone can help me.

Matthew

[brie]

Having this same problem.
No fix yet.

I know this is old but what did you end up doing?

[zeiz]

Don't remember my fstab ever had devfs entry. On the other hand there is no /usr entry so /usr isn't mounted.
My fstab looks like this:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0