X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_CG,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BDEBDF7.4000903@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 08:13:43 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx 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> <20100501165357 DOT GA21753 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4BDC64A1 DOT 2000003 AT cornell DOT edu> <811213036 DOT 20100501232358 AT mtu-net DOT ru> In-Reply-To: <811213036.20100501232358@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 5/1/2010 3:23 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Ken Brown! > >>>>>>> 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. > > Not possible. Same DLL in multiple places (due to different mount points) - > possible, but certainly not different versions of DLL's. > > [C:\]$C:\bin\which.exe -a cygwin1.dll > /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > > [C:\]$which cygwin1.dll > cygwin1.dll is an external : C:\bin\cygwin1.dll > > [C:\]$mount > C:/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C: on / type ntfs (binary,auto) > R: on /cygdrive/r type iso9660 (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) > > [C:\]$ > > See? 4NT and cygwin both see only one DLL. > >>> 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. > >> The cygcheck output also shows two Cygwin installations, one contained >> in the other. That seems risky. > > It's just a consequence, there's in fact just one installation. > > But I've tried to move Cygwin folders earlier in Path... > > [C:\]$set PATH&& lynx > C:/bin;C:/usr/sbin;C:\WINDOWS/system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS/System32/Wbem;C:/usr/4nt;C:/usr/Delphi/vbroker/bin;C:/usr/Delphi7/Bin > ;C:/usr/Delphi7/Projects/Bpl;C:/usr/sbin/svn-win32/bin;C:/PROGRA~1/WINRAR;C:/usr/ARH/7ZIP;C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin;C:/usr/ut > il;C:/DRWEB;C:/USR/BP/BIN;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/DOOM;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/UTIL;C:/usr/ARH;C:/USR/VP21/BIN.W32 Your path indicates that you have a lot of non-cygwin software inside your cygwin installation (under C:/usr). That seems like a bad idea to me. > Error opening terminal: cygwin. > > [C:\]$ > > And the same when trying to start it from bash command prompt: > > bash-3.2$ lynx > Error opening terminal: cygwin. > bash-3.2$ > > Meh... Any good idea what to delete in attempt to fix this? As cgf said, maybe you aren't running cygwin's lynx. Did you install cygwin's lynx package? What does 'cygcheck -c lynx' show? What does 'which lynx' show? Ken -- 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