Comment 8 for bug 220080

I had the same issue on 8.04 (2.8.6-2ubuntu2), which brought me to this bug report. Anyway, I've looked around a bit and can see that lynx on jaunty is marked as a transitional package, to be replaced by lynx-cur. I've since installed lynx-cur out of curiosity (as it's also available on 8.04) and can see that this package does not have the start up issue resulting from the missing HTML document. lynx-cur automatically set the STARTFILE variable to point to my system's domain name (http://`dnsdomainname`/) and if I reconfigure lynx-cur I have the option to point to a different URL or local file.