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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: mergemaster fails in single user mode
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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.