top 'xterm': unknown terminal type

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Marco Rocci picture Marco Rocci · Jul 10, 2014 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

I have an error when run TOP command:

>top
'xterm': unknown terminal type.

> echo $TERM
xterm

> echo $DISPLAY
DYSPLAY: Undefined variable.

> cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)

> ls /usr/share/terminfo/
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a A b c d e E f g h i j k l L m M n N o p P q Q r s t u v w x X z


> ls /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm

i have that problem also with Root.

does TOP use xterm?

How can i do?

Answer

Craig picture Craig · Feb 3, 2015

try adding

export TERM=linux

at the end of your .bashrc files (/home/myuser/.bashrc, /root/.bashrc). The problem is that the terminal definition 'xterm' is undefined

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