Can't start tmux "open terminal failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm"

[Facundo Quiroga]

Hi! I'm having a hard to fix issue with tmux on ubuntu 14.04,.

I've used the github releases and tried 2.2, 2.3 and 2.7, and the ubuntu package; I get the same error with all versions.

I'm getting an "open terminal failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm" whenever I want to create a session.

I get a "no server running on /tmp/tmux-1002/default" if i try to list sessions

"tmux start-server" does not throw errors, but there is no tmux process running ever (ps aux | grep tmux is empty)

The output of "echo $TERM" is "xterm". xterm works correctly. Changing $TERM to lxterminal or other term (even one that does not exist) does not work (I still get the message ".... unsuitable terminal: lxterminal")

Thanks,

Facundo

[Nicholas Marriott]

Hi

This message means that setupterm() failed. It sounds most likely that
the libncurses tmux is linked against is out of sync with the terminfo
database or something similar.

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