error creating the child process for this terminal

[Derek Broughton]

sam R wrote:

> Thank you *Karl F. Larsen *for being nice. Yes, I did read every reply
> from everyone. I tried everything but nothing worked. So, you don't have
> to attack me for not being able to solve this complicated problem. Also
> you have no right to kick me out of this list. If you don't like my e-mail
> simply don't read them.

You're not helping your own case.  Yes, Karl is a pita, and no, I'm not 
surprised nothing he told you worked, and no, he can't kick you off the 
list, but your attitude is not encouraging anybody.

First, please stop top-posting.  It makes it hard to have a conversation, 
and it alienates those of us who'd like to help.  This is the only top-
posted message in this thread I'll be responding too - you've already been 
asked more politely than Karl did.

9.04 _is_ stable.  That doesn't mean that there aren't bugs, but your 
situation is highly unusual.

/dev/pts _is_ automounted.  You shouldn't have to mount it yourself (and I 
rather expect mounting it yourself is part of your problem).

So first you need to search your system logs and see if you can find an 
error from its initial attempt to mount devpts.  

Then, if you absolutely need to mount it yourself, it should have the 
options "rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620".  gid 5 is "tty".  I expect your 
"freeze" is because the "tty" user can't access the terminal.
-- 
derek