Anyone? Gnome terminal: error creating the child process

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mdg583

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

Code: 
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:
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# 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
 
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:
Code: 
# 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
 
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