[SOLVED] Terminator stopped working Unable to start shell:/bin/bash

detestable · 2013-08-16 06:48:29

Hello,

I just wanted to share as I didn't found anything about it,
Since yesterday I can't launch my favorite terminal emulator which is terminator, it gives me :
Unable to start shell:/bin/bash
displayed in terminator window where I'm supposed to type commands.

What is strange is that I can launch /bin/bash in tty's plus I installed xterm temporarily which works fine with bash.

One more thing is that if I close terminator window it closes my graphical session !

Any idea to troubleshoot this ?

Last edited by detestable (2013-08-16 08:39:54)

jasonwryan · 2013-08-16 07:19:03

Start terminator from xterm and see if it prints any ouput.

If not, run a stack trace.

detestable · 2013-08-16 07:33:46

When started from xterm it doesn't output anything and I still get the same error, what shall I do to get a stack trace ?

jasonwryan · 2013-08-16 07:36:09

There is a wiki article to step you through it:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ing_Traces

detestable · 2013-08-16 08:19:20

I'm getting this :

me@latitude ~ $ gdb /usr/bin/python
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/python3.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run /bin/terminator
Starting program: /usr/bin/python3.3 /bin/terminator
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
  File "/bin/terminator", line 103
    except (KeyError,ValueError), ex:
                                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[Inferior 1 (process 13780) exited with code 01]

I also tried gnome-terminal which is not working correctly (installed right now)
From the user interface it says in red :

"There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"
"grantpt failed: Operation not permitted"

From gdb :

m@latitude ~ $ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-terminal 
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-terminal...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal 
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7ffa000
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffea2b9700 (LWP 13839)]
Error: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._vte_2dpty_2derror.Code1: grantpt failed: Operation not permitted
[Thread 0x7fffea2b9700 (LWP 13839) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 13835) exited normally]

Only xterm seems to work

lzs · 2013-08-16 08:24:15

This thread might help: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1312545

detestable · 2013-08-16 08:39:40

Oooh yes it does !
Commented /dev/pts from fstab + reboot and everything works fine now.
Thank you a lot both of you I can start reusing my favorite terminal emulator now !

An happy archlinux user

Hantabaru · 2013-08-16 08:39:48

I had this problem as well.

Commenting out the /dev/pts line in my /etc/fstab file and letting systemd take care of things fixed this for me - as described in the thread given by Izs.

Thanks Izs.

Edit: 8 secs after detestable...

Last edited by Hantabaru (2013-08-16 08:42:00)

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#1 2013-08-16 06:48:29

[SOLVED] Terminator stopped working Unable to start shell:/bin/bash

#2 2013-08-16 07:19:03

Re: [SOLVED] Terminator stopped working Unable to start shell:/bin/bash

#3 2013-08-16 07:33:46

Re: [SOLVED] Terminator stopped working Unable to start shell:/bin/bash

#4 2013-08-16 07:36:09

Re: [SOLVED] Terminator stopped working Unable to start shell:/bin/bash

#5 2013-08-16 08:19:20

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#6 2013-08-16 08:24:15

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#7 2013-08-16 08:39:40

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