From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75763138359 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 04:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C00C9E087B; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 04:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta31.teksavvy.com (pmta31.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D7FDE0869 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 04:40:11 +0000 (UTC) IronPort-SDR: Wclb0E8ILA6u7z6pED+jOTIxlSVvnEQLMxNGLApk/ihNkO3YxwF/ClQDhLjRMyo+8MxhxycXgS HWnDLDEnSg+Q== X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2E2CgAQTQVf/1J4oWxgHAEBAQEBAQc?= =?us-ascii?q?BARIBAQQEAQFAB4FDAoMXVF+IY4RQhgiCEJYZhS49CwEBATMHAQIEAQEChD8?= =?us-ascii?q?EAgKCEyU4EwIDAQELAQEBBQEBAQEBBgQCAoYXBicMQxYBghhfgQIBAQEBAQE?= =?us-ascii?q?BAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBARICDVRpAQU6HDMLGBwSVxmDJ4J8D6ligTSEOgE?= =?us-ascii?q?LAYEKhHQGgTgBgVyLJz+BAj+EIT6CXAKBR2WCfIItBI8QpXsKglyBDYc+kHA?= =?us-ascii?q?CLZEmjXeZLIJKlGGBdoF5fQiDJFAZDVeJMogGinIoMDcCBggBAQMJVwGJe4Y?= =?us-ascii?q?CAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2E2CgAQTQVf/1J4oWxgHAEBAQEBAQcBARIBAQQEAQFAB?= =?us-ascii?q?4FDAoMXVF+IY4RQhgiCEJYZhS49CwEBATMHAQIEAQEChD8EAgKCEyU4EwIDA?= =?us-ascii?q?QELAQEBBQEBAQEBBgQCAoYXBicMQxYBghhfgQIBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBARICDVRpAQU6HDMLGBwSVxmDJ4J8D6ligTSEOgELAYEKhHQGgTgBg?= =?us-ascii?q?VyLJz+BAj+EIT6CXAKBR2WCfIItBI8QpXsKglyBDYc+kHACLZEmjXeZLIJKl?= =?us-ascii?q?GGBdoF5fQiDJFAZDVeJMogGinIoMDcCBggBAQMJVwGJe4YCAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,326,1589256000"; d="scan'208";a="138507917" Received: from 108-161-120-82.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.120.82]) by smtp13.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 08 Jul 2020 00:40:09 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:40:03 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 00:40:03 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install Message-ID: <20200708044003.GA30312@waltdnes.org> References: <20200708020225.GB27227@waltdnes.org> <20200708060656.7abaded0@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200708060656.7abaded0@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> X-Archives-Salt: e84b163c-daa7-473d-8a38-df23978ed337 X-Archives-Hash: 4b4a2d4af2ec16a7d64cf39b9fb64069 On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:06:56AM +0200, tastytea wrote > On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > > It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done > > some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so > > it may apply to more than just nano. But see... > > https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server > > https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436 > > > > I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question > > is... > > > > 1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it > > understand my desktop's xterm? > > Your 2 hyperlinks mention that executing `export TERM=xterm-color` on > your laptop should work around the issue. Thanks, I missed that. I'll try again and see how it goes. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications