Hi Micah, On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Micah Cowan <mi...@cowan.name> wrote: > (03/02/2011 09:10 PM), Vaibhav Bedia wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using tmux-1.4. I just started getting the error (open terminal >> failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm) when trying to attach >> to a pre-existing session. > > That error message would indicate that a terminfo database entry can't > be found for "xterm". Make sure that TERMINFO isn't set (or else, > explicitly set it to where it should be able to find its terminfo > database). If setting it explicitly has a positive effect, then perhaps > your tmux 1.4 was built with a different idea of where terminfo stuff > should be, than tmux 1.3 was. Were they built/linked against different > versions of ncurses? Was tmux 1.4 obtained or built using different > means than tmux 1.3 was?
Yes its with different versions of ncurses and libevent. I was using a pre-compiled binary for tmux-1.3 and even libevent path was set to someone else's compiled version on a server. I am not sure about this but since both are in the same machine i guess except the libevent and ncurses part the build procedure was the same. > > In addition to playing with TERMINFO, you might also try copying > /usr/share/terminfo/x/* (or wherever it is) into ~/.terminfo/x/. > > Good paths to try for TERMINFO include /etc/terminfo, /lib/terminfo, and > /usr/share/terminfo. Find out which one has an x/xterm in it and set it > to that. > Setting TERMINFO manually to /usr/share/terminfo worked. > If any of these tricks work, then the next step would be to find out why > it's not looking at that place by default. > However i have a really strange observation. I just exported TERMINFO variable and then launched a tmux session. Then i detached from it and logged out from the server i was working on. When i again log in i again check TERMINFO and its not set to anything (since i just did an export earlier). But now i can reattach to the session i had invoked earlier. So essentially i am in the same state i was in earlier but now its working. If TERMINFO is not set when i want to launch a new session it fails with the same error message about missing term. I can't figure out what's happening here. -- Regards, Vaibhav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
