Following may be useless, but on the hope that it might add some insight for some problem-solver, I will post it: I installed Ubuntu 6.06 from an ISO disk I burned. I installed it on a Western Digital 80Gb external Hard Drive (USB) connected to a Compaq Presario with an Athlon 3000+ processor. It installed and booted from the external drive fine. I then updated to Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop. The 7.04 install again booted fine from the WD external drive, once, twice, maybe three times. On the third or fourth time I tried to boot I got the /bin/sh: can't access tty; job turned off message.
Because I know nothing about Ubutu commands and the help menu is not at all intuitive for me, I simply gave up, shut down and attempted to reboot--no luck--same result: /bin/sh: can"t access....etc. Using the same ISO disk as before I reinstalled 6.06 (erasing the disk in the process) on the WD external drive. I've rebooted fromn the same external drive twice since then with no problems. I will not attempt to update to 7.04 unless I see that there is a definitive fix to the can't access tty issue. One final observation, Although I'm still new to Ubuntu, I have experienced the phenomenon of having an install boot faultlessly once, twice or three times, only to fail on the fourth and successive boot attempts. In that previous circumstance I had installed the system on an 8 Gb USB-connected flash drive. -- boot - /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
