Error Failed To Fork Pty
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to fork pty". Edit Remove 6 Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone sysvinit (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Undecided Unassigned Edit Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description Binary package hint: synaptic Ubuntu 9.04 Install and Remove Applications I try to install any package and I get this error Add tags Tag help Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-04-28: #1 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1142400 "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem. We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures At a minimum, we need: 1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem, 2. the behavior you expected, and 3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368501 detail as possible). Thanks! Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): status: New → Incomplete kapatz (massimo-terenzi) wrote on 2009-04-28: #2 after network upgrade ubuntu to 9.04, I can not install more package using synaptic package manager, the error is: Error failed to fork pty. if I try to open the terminal for use apt-get command line, the terminal appears, but without prompt and the error is : There was an error creating the child process for this terminal bot42u (boycethompson) wrote on 2009-04-29: #3 I have the exact same problem and distribution. kapatz (massimo-terenzi) wrote on 2009-04-29: #4 I have resolved with: sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh /etc/rcS.d/S11mountdevsubfs.sh sudo vi /etc/fstab add string: devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 romeoluzzi (luzzir) wrote on 2009-04-30: #5 Very cool kapatz, but how do you do all that if you can't get into the command line. I have the same problem and am not having any luck trying to solve it. Additional information would be greatly appreciated. kapatz (massimo-terenzi) wrote on 2009-04-30: #6 hit ctrl + alt + F1, if it does not work the first time, try again another time ctrl + alt + F1, then login and make change romeoluzzi (luzzir) wrote on 2009-
unavailable Technote (troubleshooting) Problem(Abstract) InfoSphere Information Server DataStage parallel job are intermitently failing with the error message: fork() failed, Resource temporarily unavailable Cause This error occurs when http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21393359 the operating system is unable to create all of the processes needed for the job at runtime. Unfortunately, there is not a single reason to cause this problem. On Unix or Linux platforms the most common reasons are: The maximum process limit has been reached for the kernel The maximum open file limit has been reached Swap space allocation or pre-allocation has been exceeded On Windows this error failed issue can be related to running out of Desktop Heap or other system resources. Resolving the problem On Unix or Linux Adjust the maximum process limit The exact methods for identifying and modifying process and file limits will vary between the different Unix and Linux platforms. The system administrator for the operating system should be engaged to assist with this. As an example, the following command error failed to can be used on the AIX platform to see the current value of maxuproc: lsattr -E -l sys0 | grep maxuproc On Linux check the nproc setting in /etc/security/limits.conf A reasonable setting for environments running large jobs would be MAXUPROC = 4096. To optimize this value, you can monitor (over time) the number of processes that are running daily, and then set the value accordingly. Here is some sample shell script code that you can use to monitor the number of processes belonging to the 'dsadm' user. The script will loop 365 times and take a measurement every 5 seconds. #!/bin/sh COUNTER=360 echo "" > /tmp/dsadm_count.txt until [ $COUNTER -lt 0 ]; do let COUNTER-=1 sleep 5 date >> /tmp/dsadm_count.txt ps -ef | grep dsadm |wc -l >> /tmp/dsadm_count.txt done Reduce the number of processes If you are unable to adjust the limits or if the limits are at maximum and the error still occurs, then the number of running process may be too large for this environment. In that case try to reduce the number of processes to workaround this problem. Reducing the number of processes may decrease performance but can allow jobs to complete. To r