From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdkoG-0001tN-7N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:34:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB37BE09B7; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0BBE09B7 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3FE7BC9E for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:33:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:33:44 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash Message-ID: <20100206083344.2ff96f9c@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1b8b7d24-0f2a-4547-8e44-0484a5dcc543 X-Archives-Hash: d0442107c0bb55f7f502d8cac50acae5 Greetings, This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. FWIW, my usual "update world" was done yesterday (and emerged the packages listed at the end of this message).=20 Anybody have suggestions regarding the symptoms given below? Regards, David ### symptoms ### Attempting to start a new terminal session from an existing terminal session (using ctrl-shft-N).=20 There was an error creating the child process for this terminal and a terminal window without a prompt (not running bash??) The same message and window appear when I try to start one from the GNOME menu. =46rom emacs, running the shell command produces the following message (and a usable shell window): bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Invalid argument bash: no job control in this shell ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Neither dmesg nor /var/log/messages has any unusual messages ### recently emerged packages ### app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 dev-util/global-5.7.7 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1