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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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