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Re: ae can't open terminal



I just tried nano out and I get the same result so its not a problem
specific to ae.


Andrew Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to create a rescue disk for myself using ae as an editor on
> the rescue disk.  I compiled and tested ae and it seemed to work fine on
> my development system so I mounted the rootdisk that I'm creating as a
> loop device:
> 
>         #mount -o loop /tmp/fs /mnt
> 
> and chrooted to /mnt
> 
>         #chroot /mnt
> 
> Now ae says it can't open the terminal when it was working fine before.
> 
>         # ae
>         Error opening terminal: xterm.
> 
> I also tried this from tty1 instead of through X and I got basically the
> same error:
> 
>         # ae
>         Error opening terminal: Linux.
> 
> I'm using busybox as a shell and basic system and I've also installed
> the following libraries:
> 
>         # ls lib
>         ld-2.2.3.so        libc-2.2.3.so      libncurses.so.5
>         ld-linux.so.2      libc.so.6          libncurses.so.5.2
> 
> I didn't install slang because "#ldd ae" returned:
> 
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001f000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005f000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> I also tried adding libslang but the results were the same.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> P.S. I did create the filesystem by hand.  Could I be missing a device
> for the display or something?
> 
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