Public bug reported:
On Jaunty amd64, after upgrading to the latest 2.6.28-4 kernel, none of
my terminal emulators (xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal, or xterm) will
give me a bash prompt when I start one. Xfce4-terminal does not report
any error, gnome-terminal says "There was an error creating a child
process for this terminal", and xterm says "No such file or directory.
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys".
After mounting /dev/pts (with the command 'sudo mount -t devpts devpts
/dev/pts'), everything works as it should. However, in the 2.6.28-3
kernel, /dev/pts never had to be mounted in order for me to get a
terminal. Is this a regression, or is this new behavior correct? And
if it is correct, should /dev/pts be mounted automatically or is there
another way to fix this issue?
Thanks
uname -a: Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-4-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 1 22:53:33 UTC
2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
xfce4-terminal: 0.2.8.3-0ubuntu1
gnome-terminal: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu2
xterm: 237-1ubuntu1
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Terminal emulators can not start a bash shell in 2.6.28-4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313947
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