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). 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). 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. From 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