Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:22:22 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergemaster fails in single user mode Message-ID: <20041103002221.GC35876@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <4187C23C.6030103@locolomo.org> References: <4187A696.9020806@locolomo.org> <20041102170511.GA40891@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <4187C23C.6030103@locolomo.org>
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On 2004-11-02 18:22, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, AFAIK, this shouldn't happen. Do you have a /.profile file?
>
> hmm, maybe that explains it, /.profile was missing and created when i
> ran mergemaster in multiuser mode, so I guess cd failed because my path
> was empty.
Because TERM was unset. The default /.profile contains:
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
which makes sure that TERM is set to cons25, unless it's already set to
something else.
> I think I must have deleted it when cleaning up from some other
> messing arround - DOH!!
Heh. Yeah, that's a very likely scenario.
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