X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:53:57 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx Message-ID: <20100501165357.GA21753@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <545472025 DOT 20100501114001 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <20100501080821 DOT GA3809 AT ghost DOT local DOT lan> <20100501160824 DOT GA21508 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <925535189 DOT 20100501203918 AT mtu-net DOT ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925535189.20100501203918@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:39:18PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > >>>> I'm receiving this error message when trying to start >>>> lynx browser: >>>> >>>> [C:\]$lynx >>>> Error opening terminal: cygwin. >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>What does `echo $TERM' tells you? (I'm guessing TERM=cygwin) >>>Does `export TERM=xterm' solve the problem? >>>Note that it works for me whatever TERM is: cygwin, xterm, screen... >>>I can only force to fail if I set TERM to nonsense `TERM=sjdfjsfjsf' >>> >>>(What I don't know is why TERM=cygwin fails for you) > >> At this point we normally ask for someone to read: > >> http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >> and provide the type of information suggested there. > >Though it's apparent that I've just launched lynx as normal application, as >I've always did in the past. >TERM show nothing, this variable is undefined in common Windows environment. > >May I ask you what cygcheck mean when listing Far FTP plugin host definitions? >I've left it included, as it contains no private data, but it shouldn't be there. cygcheck did not list your installed packages for some reason which sounds like you may have more than one cygwin1.dll on your system. For sure it is obvious that your PATH isn't right. Cygwin's directories should always come first. So maybe you aren't running a cygwin versin of lynx but are, instead, running something which does not understand the cygwin TERM type. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple