[NTLUG:Discuss] terminal error

[Steve Baker]

"George E. Lass" wrote:

> Do you have an entry in your /etc/termcaps file for xterm?

Since he's lost *both* vt100 and xterm, it could be that he's lost
/etc/termcap altogether.

At any rate, this isn't likely to be kernel related per-se - it'll
be something else that went wrong during installation.

> Seth Stone wrote:
> >
> > I recently upgraded to the 2.2.11 kernel and I now get the following
> > message when trying to run commands such as 'clear', 'less', and 'reset'
> > from a ssh session.
> >
> >     'vt100': unknown terminal type
> >
> > when in X the same thing happens with:
> >
> >     'xterm': unknown terminal type
> >
> > any ideas before we bail out, and try 2.2.10.

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