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 834DF138359 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A82CE0815; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta21.teksavvy.com (pmta21.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.36]) (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 299E3E07A7 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:35:56 +0000 (UTC) IronPort-SDR: 8tHJz171lZMt/pGsosKjWSu/aIvYvLrvY58hYn0kG2zlTPqXJM1B5uiWvCu9NtLol8mGEWF/0Y 97LEloyAywmA== X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EKCgCRHwZf/1J4oWxgHAEBAQEBAQc?= =?us-ascii?q?BARIBAQQEAQFAB4FDAoNrX4hkhFCGDIIQnAYLAQEBOgECBAEBhEcEAgKCFiU?= =?us-ascii?q?4EwIDAQELAQEBBQEBAQEBBgQCAoZQQxYBhW8BBTocMyMcElcZhiOrVIE0hVG?= =?us-ascii?q?EfoE4AY0IP4ECP4ERiFiCfIItBI8QpX0KglyBDZguAi2RKY14AbBZgXaBe30?= =?us-ascii?q?IgyRQGQ1XnCooMDcCBggBAQMJVwGJWoV5AQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EKCgCRHwZf/1J4oWxgHAEBAQEBAQcBARIBAQQEAQFAB?= =?us-ascii?q?4FDAoNrX4hkhFCGDIIQnAYLAQEBOgECBAEBhEcEAgKCFiU4EwIDAQELAQEBB?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBBgQCAoZQQxYBhW8BBTocMyMcElcZhiOrVIE0hVGEfoE4AY0IP4ECP?= =?us-ascii?q?4ERiFiCfIItBI8QpX0KglyBDZguAi2RKY14AbBZgXaBe30IgyRQGQ1XnCooM?= =?us-ascii?q?DcCBggBAQMJVwGJWoV5AQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,329,1589256000"; d="scan'208";a="138202701" Received: from 108-161-120-82.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.120.82]) by smtp12.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 08 Jul 2020 15:35:54 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:35:46 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:35:46 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] SSH xterm not working properly during install Message-ID: <20200708193546.GA1898@waltdnes.org> References: <20200708020225.GB27227@waltdnes.org> <20200708060656.7abaded0@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> <20200708044003.GA30312@waltdnes.org> <2c6a0945-60d3-4728-d814-9c684d84fc6b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> 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: <2c6a0945-60d3-4728-d814-9c684d84fc6b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> X-Archives-Salt: 95470714-9cfa-462d-8b0c-345bf613b22a X-Archives-Hash: 9814840d244921b8f7617e1fd486f905 On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:58:48PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote > On 7/7/20 10:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Thanks, I missed that. I'll try again and see how it goes. > > If you continue to have problems, I would very much like to know the > particulars. > > My experience has been that changing the TERM environment variable has > had very little success in fixing things like this. > > In fact, the only way that I see it working is if you are TERM is set to > something MASSIVELY wrong for your actual terminal. I.e. trying to send > fancy xterm / ANSI control sequences to an old dumb terminal like a VT100. Once you know what questions to ask, things become easier. Knowing that it was a TERM mismatch, a bit of googling turned up the "toe" command, which lists what your terminal supports. It looks like the install CD defaults to TERM="linux", which xterm (the app) doesn't support, according to "toe". Setting TERM on both ends to "xterm" solves the problem. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications