[Maverick] /etc/zsh/zshrc:12: unknown parameter: terminfo & ~/.zshrc:239: parse error: condition expected: dumb

[Duane Hinnen]

Binary package hint: terminator

When launching Terminator in Maverick I get the following errors printed to Terminator:

/etc/zsh/zshrc:12: unknown parameter: terminfo
/home/duanedesign/.zshrc:239: parse error: condition expected: dumb

The .zshrc is the same config file I have used for a couple of releases now. None of my prompt settings are loaded. When i run an alias command, I get:

TERM environment variable not set.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
terminator 0.93-1 multiple GNOME terminals in one window

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: terminator 0.93-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 21 07:36:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: terminator

[Maurice Aarts (ice-blade)]

I'm having the same issues with the combination of zsh+Terminator and zsh+Guake.
As soon as I open either Terminator or Guake I get:
/etc/zsh/zshrc:226: unknown parameter: terminfo

zsh+Terminal appears to work normally.

In addition I'm also having problems with the backspace key in Terminator and Guake. When I type something and press backspace it effectively does a backspace, but prints a space on the screen. Thus typing "lls<backspace><backspace>s<enter>" executes "ls" but prints "lls s" to the terminal.
When I press the up-arrow key to list a previous command, the line is not refreshed, and the previous command simply gets appended to the end of the line, however, again only the 'last' part of the line is actually executed.
When downloading something with 'wget' the progress bar does refresh correctly, but when I downloaded 'calibre' earlier, it spammed the console with lines "Downloaded 0.001%" "Downloaded 0.020%" etc so it appears a line-clear or something is being misinterpreted somewhere.

The above problem does NOT occur in zsh+Terminal combination.

If you need any more files or logs or whatever, let me know and I'll attempt to post them. ;-)

[JayCee (x-launchpad-jaycee)]

If I open Guake I get:
/etc/zsh/zshrc:12: unknown parameter: terminfo

echo $TERM returns an empty string and many keys (backspace, home, end, ...) dosn't work correctly. Setting TERM to xterm fixes the issue with the backspace key but nothing else.

[Maurice Aarts (ice-blade)]

This bug has been fixed in terminator 0.95, thus I believe the duplicate status of this bug should be to bug 621927 instead of 621606.

I've added a link to the Guake package and their bugtracker, so maybe they'll see the messages we posted and fix it soon.

[vinyll (agnanov)]

Had the same issue after the update from 10.04 to 10.10.

Adding the line :

export TERM=xterm

in my ~/.zshrc file did the trick !
Now works again with Guake.