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Greetings, |
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This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation |
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problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems |
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starting X applications like firefox and open office. |
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FWIW, my usual "update world" was done yesterday (and emerged the |
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packages listed at the end of this message). |
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Anybody have suggestions regarding the symptoms given below? |
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Regards, |
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David |
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### symptoms ### |
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Attempting to start a new terminal session from an existing terminal |
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session (using ctrl-shft-N). |
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There was an error creating the child process for this terminal |
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and a terminal window without a prompt (not running bash??) The same |
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message and window appear when I try to start one from the GNOME menu. |
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From emacs, running the shell command produces the following message |
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(and a usable shell window): |
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bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Invalid argument |
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bash: no job control in this shell |
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ssh into box gives: |
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PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 |
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Neither dmesg nor /var/log/messages has any unusual messages |
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### recently emerged packages ### |
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app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 |
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app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 |
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dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 |
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dev-util/global-5.7.7 |
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media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a |
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media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 |
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media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 |
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sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 |
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virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 |
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virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 |
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virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1 |