Error opening terminal: xterm. [Solved]

Message

syn_ack · Post by **syn_ack** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:52 pm

Hello,

I just recently did an "emerge sync" and "emerge -uD world".
I'm running KDE version 3.2.0 and KONSOLE version 1.3

Now when I try and use "nano" to edit files I get this error. Searching on the forums hasn't helped.

Example:

Code: Select all

toast@fusion1 toast $ nano -w newfile.txt
Error opening terminal: xterm.

As root I get the same error.

The two other weird things are that:
1) I can "cat [filename]" just fine. But.....
2) If I use "less [filename]", it works but I get the following....

Example:

Code: Select all

toast@fusion1 toast $ less pydu.py
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
pydu.py  (press RETURN)

Ofcourse, if I hit return, "less" parses through the given file just fine.

No what I find really puzzeling is that if I choose "Linux console" from the dropdown list of choices inside of "Konsole", I don't run into any of these problems. The error only seems to happen when using KDE's Konsole shell?

What do I need to do to get KDE's Konsole Shell to use "nano" again?
"ncurses was one of the files emerged." "ncurses-5.4" And this seems to be the only thing that might be related but its beyond me at this point.

Thanks,

ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:40 pm

maybe you need to recompile the kde package that contains konsole. you can find out by using qpkg -f /location/of/exec.

Code: Select all

bash-2.05b$ qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.1/bin/konsole
kde-base/kdebase *

remerge kdebase and see what happens.

chris

syn_ack · Post by **syn_ack** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:29 am

Thanks for the help ctford0.

I tried your suggestion and this is what I got:

Code: Select all

toast@fusion1 toast $ qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.1/bin/konsole
kde-base/kdebase *
kde-base/kdepim *

I remerged "kdebase" and "kdepim".

I'm still getting the same results.

Code: Select all

toast@fusion1 toast $ nano -w pydu.py
Error opening terminal: xterm.

I tried the above test right after remerging "kdebase" and got the same results. Logged out and back in. Same thing. Then remerged "kdepim" did the same things and I still get the same results. I have know clue.. I've googled... but am still clueless as to what I could possible check to help isolate what, where the problem is.

Any other tips are very appreciated.

Thanks,

syn_ack · Post by **syn_ack** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:54 am

Ahhhhh.
Last but not least, "ncurses" as I stated originally.

Remerged "ncurses" agian and that fixed it.

Thanks for the help.

tucolino · Post by **tucolino** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:29 pm

syn_ack wrote:Ahhhhh.
Last but not least, "ncurses" as I stated originally.

Remerged "ncurses" agian and that fixed it.

Thanks for the help.

good call. had the same problem with gnome-terminal and that fixed it. thanks.

tuco

Al-Hala · Post by **Al-Hala** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:57 am

Ah. Nice.

This one's had me scratching my head for a while. Appreciate the tip

tecknojunky · Post by **tecknojunky** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:20 pm

I'm having the same difficulty, but re-emerging ncurses do not resolv it. Whatever console editor I use, it will bork on a similar problem. In vim, it say that "linux" can't be found in terminfo. I get the same as the poster above with nano.

All in all, I can't edit files while i'm natively booted, but it works fine when I boot with Fedora Core CD and chroot on Gentoo.

Bjolletz · Post by **Bjolletz** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:19 pm

I'm having this problem too. The difference is that it all works fine for root, but for users I get the "Error opening terminal: xterm" message.

I have tried to re-emerge ncurses but it didnt help.