I have a Debian Squeeze server installment, on which I have installed Gnome (because I wanted to be able to use Remote Desktop from Windows and develop directly on the server).
This is working, however, when I try to open up a Gnome Terminal I get the following error:
There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
I have search the web for an answer, and some places, people say it becuase the user is not in the ttygroup.
The user I log in with is mol.
Doing an id, I get uid=1002(mol) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),5(tty),1002(mol).
This user is in the tty group.
Other places on the web, people are saying it is because /dev/pts isn't mounted, as suggests that you add the following to your /etc/fstab:
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
This I have also added to my /etc/fstab. Running mount gives me this output:
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
So this device is mounted.
This is were I, and the pages I have reached in my search, run out of ideas. What do I do?
PS. Running xterm from the run applications window gives no error, but also no terminal.
$DISPLAYappropriately and try to rungnome-terminal? – voretaq7♦ Jul 29 '11 at 18:06$DISPLAYto:12in this case, and the rungnome-terminal? It gives me the same error message on the gnome desktop, but nothing more on the console. – Mads Ohm Larsen Jul 29 '11 at 20:46rootI do get a terminal up and running on the desktop. This is sayingTerminal (as superuser)in the title field, and I am logged in as root in this terminal. So it is a permission problem? But where? – Mads Ohm Larsen Jul 29 '11 at 21:24