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 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? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 01.05.2010, <23:09> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
