Re: Terminal problem after 5.1 upgrade.

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> Has anyone had problems with terminal environments after a
> 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade.  Every terminal env setting I use results
> in an unknown terminal error from bash.

do "rpm -q ncurses" and tell us what it reports. If it doesn't report
anything, that's your problem :-}.

If that's not the problem, 'cd /usr/lib/terminfo/l' and do a 'ls -l' to
make sure all your Linux terminfo entries are there. If you're trying to
set it to VT100 or something, 'cd /usr/lib/terminfo/v' and do a 'ls -l
vt*' to make sure those entries are there. If something goofed during your
upgrade, e.g. you ran out of disk space, the whole thing may not have been
installed. 

My RH 5.1 system works fine. I just dialed into it from here at work and
did "TERM=vt100" and 'vi' etc. worked just fine. But I installed my RH 5.1
from scratch after the initial attempt to upgrade failed. (No, don't ask
me what failed, I did all of that at midnight after flying 1,000 miles
from Durham NC after LinuxExpo and frankly don't remember much at all from
that night :-). 

Eric Lee Green   [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist               Educational Administration Solutions
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