Terminals in X exit "error creating child process"[SOLVED]

ToadMan8 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 81

Probably a dumb question resulting from an etc-update oversight:

When I open any terminal app (eterm, aterm, etc) in X it never gives me a prompt. Various terminal apps give various errors, but the best error is from Gnome-terminal "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal".

I can get a terminal by starting an SSH session from a different machine, and I can log-on using other virtual consoles. Any ideas?

Thanks

ToadMan8 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 81

The solution, by the way, was to fix permissions on /dev/ptmx - it was 600 and worked when I set it to 666. Not sure what changed the perms; assuming udev.

federico · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject:

That solved!!! After upgrading udev I had the same error. Thanks!
Federico
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