An error “There was an error creating the child process for this terminal” was seen while opening a terminal through right clicking the desktop

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Issue

  • While opening a terminal through right clicking the desktop, an error was seen: “There was an error creating the child process for this terminal”.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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