Holger Wansing <[email protected]> writes: > - start the installer > - choose 'Graphical expert install' > - 'Execute a shell' > - call 'nano /etc/fstab' > ---> Error opening terminal: xterm.
That would seem to be because $TERM is set to 'xterm', whereas there's no terminfo file available for xterm. Under /lib/terminfo/*/ we have: ansi dumb linux screen vt102 and there's also /usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm In the F1-F3 consoles it's set to 'linux' (as expected), in the text installer, TERM is set to 'bterm' -- these work. So as a workaround, one can set e.g: TERM=bterm and then nano works in the graphical install's shell. On the 11.5 netinst I just tried out, in the Graphical Install's shell, TERM=xterm so that's obviously not the cause of the issue, but the difference would appear to be that it has: /usr/share/vte/termcap-0.0/xterm So I guess the fix for this is either to make sure that that termcap file gets installed again, or to set TERM in the Graphical Install's shell to something like 'bterm' or 'vt102'. I suspect restoring the termcap file is the correct fix. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
