Re: Terminal type??

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On 19Apr2010 16:52, Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 04/19/2010 03:19:49 PM, Mikkel wrote:
| > On 04/19/2010 04:08 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
| > > /usr/bin/gnome-terminal has suddenly started rejecting 
| > "TERM=xterm".
| > 
| > > OK, so that's not true, but its been working since gnome-terminal 
| > > showed up. Anyone know what the appropriate setting is?
| > > 
| > > Thanks.
| > > 
| > Dumb question - why are you trying to set TERM? On my system, it
| > already defaults to xterm.
| > 
| > It would also help to know how you are setting TERM, and what error
| > you are getting.
| 
| geoff@mtranch[1]->echo $TERM
| xterm
| geoff@mtranch[2]->clear
| 'xterm': unknown terminal type.
| 
| On further thought, /usr/bin/clear is packaged with ncurses, and so one 
| would think that it would depend, ultimately, on /usr/share/terminfo/x/
| xterm,which exists and is readable. Hmmmm .... time for a reboot?

These are looked up on the fly, so a reboot should not help.

Try:

  strace -e trace=file clear 2>str.out

and then examine str.out. Where is "clear" looking for terminal data?

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