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Operating Systems Solaris VI Editor issue "E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo" Post 302403093 by incredible on Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:13:11 AM

03-11-2010

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env >>my_env.txt
check how your terminal is set:
echo $TERM
echo $DISPLAY

Code:

Why am I having problems with terminfo/curses?

Terminator has its own terminfo file. This is regrettably necessary because of Terminator's unconventional approach to handling wide lines with a horizontal scrollbar rather than by wrapping them. The file will be installed under ~/.terminfo the first time you run Terminator. If you used an installer that runs as root and can write to the system-wide terminfo directory (currently just the Linux installer), the terminfo file will be installed system-wide at install time.

If you run Terminator itself as root and the terminfo file has not been installed in the system-wide terminfo directory, it will be installed at that point.

If the terminfo file isn't available, the most common warnings you'll see are this one from programs such as less(1):

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
- (press RETURN)

and this one, from vim(1):

E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
'terminator' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_riscos
builtin_amiga
builtin_beos-ansi
builtin_ansi
builtin_pcansi
builtin_win32
builtin_vt320
builtin_vt52
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_debug
builtin_dumb
defaulting to 'ansi'

If you think you have the correct terminfo available but you're still having problems, the next thing to check is that you're actually using Terminator's terminfo. For example, if your problem is with your shell, check that echo $TERM says "terminator", and if your problem is with Vim, check that :se term says "term=terminator".

Although Terminator sets the TERM environment variable to "terminator" for you, your shell's profile may be setting it to an incorrect value. Also, if you're logging in to a remote machine, the value of TERM may not be correctly transferred. It's always worth checking as described in the previous paragraph. The correct fix is to change your profile so it doesn't override TERM, and to use protocols like SSH which transfer your terminal type. You definitely shouldn't force TERM to be "terminator" (or any other value) in your profile: that's how you get into this kind of trouble.

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profile

profile(4)                                                         File Formats                                                         profile(4)

NAME

       profile - setting up an environment for user at login time

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/profile

       $HOME/.profile

DESCRIPTION

       All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login command have the commands in these files executed as part of their login sequence.

       /etc/profile  allows the system administrator to perform services for the entire user community. Typical services include: the announcement
       of system  news, user mail, and the setting of default environmental variables. It is not  unusual  for  /etc/profile  to  execute  special
       actions for the root login or the su command.

       The  file  $HOME/.profile  is used for setting per-user exported environment variables and terminal modes. The following example is typical
       (except for the comments):

              # Make some environment variables global
              export MAIL PATH TERM
              # Set file creation mask
              umask 022
              # Tell me when new mail comes in
              MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
              # Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence
              PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
              # Set terminal type
              TERM=${L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid
              while :
              do
                      if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ]
                   then break
                      elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ]
                   then break
                   else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2
                   fi
                   echo "terminal: c"
                   read TERM
              done
              # Initialize the terminal and set tabs
              # Set the erase character to backspace
              stty erase '^H' echoe

FILES

       $HOME/.profile          user-specific environment

       /etc/profile            system-wide environment

SEE ALSO

       env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1),  tput(1), su(1M), terminfo(4), environ(5), term(5)

       Solaris Advanced User's Guide

NOTES

       Care must be taken in providing system-wide services in /etc/profile. Personal .profile files are better  for  serving  all  but  the  most
       global needs.

SunOS 5.10                                                          20 Dec 1992                                                         profile(4)