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Re: moira problem: Error opening terminal.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Nov 10 18:42:03 1998

To: Mark Histed <histed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 10 Nov 1998 18:41:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: Mark Histed's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:33:10 EST"

Mark Histed <histed@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 6:22pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % where moira
> /usr/athena/bin/moira
> 6:22pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % rpm -q -f /usr/athena/bin/moira
> athena-moira-8.2-1
> 6:23pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % rpm -V athena-moira
> 6:23pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % moira
> Error opening terminal: linux.
> 6:23pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % setenv TERM vt102
> 6:23pm mozg tty1 - h/i/histed % moira
> Error opening terminal: vt102.
> 
> If you've already fixed this, ignore this bug report.

The problem you're seeing is that Red Hat's libc5 compatibility
package is incomplete.  Running

	ln -s ../share/terminfo /usr/lib/terminfo

should make moira happy.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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