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bash: cannot set terminal process group (3987): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell

Submitted by Druss on Wed, 2014-08-20 19:44

On a new Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) LTS server, I ran into the following:

$ su -c /bin/bash foo
bash: cannot set terminal process group (3987): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell

However, the su procedure worked and I was logged in as user foo.

I do not have a solution to make this go away at the moment. However, this appears to be a known issue. I'll update this page when a solution presents itself or the issue is fixed upstream.

FWIW, this does not occur in Ubuntu 12.04 or Debian 6 (Squeeze).