"Name collision between su dumb"

[Sergey Akifiev_1]

on 11.11 some applicatins (for example vim) printing a screenfull of lines like "Name collision between su dumb" (last two words are different for each line).
what it can be? on 11.23 everything is OK.

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

If TERMINFO is not set you don't (now) get a core-dump, you get an error message about "Name collision between h hh" etc. If TERMINFO is set (correctly) the application works fine.
The problem is in ncurses.

regards,
ivan

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Create the following:

ln -s /usr/share/lib/terminfo /usr/local/share/terminfo

(may have to create the directory "/usr/local/share" first if it doesn't exist -
but it should)

[Sergey Akifiev_1]

thnx. setting TERMINFO or doing `ln -s' helps.
BUT. in termino(4) it is stated that if TERMINFO is not set, then it is defauilting to "/usr/lib/terminfo/?/*". why this doesn't work?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Because you are reading an HP-UX man page and vim was almost certainly using ncurses (the Gnu version of the curses library) so while TERMINFO behavior is correctly documented for the HP supplied version of lcurses, that does not imply that the documentation is correct for other lcurses implementations.

[Sergey Akifiev_1]

thnx for lighting this corner.

the soluthion for ncurses is:
`ln -s /usr/share/lib/terminfo /usr/local/share/terminfo'
or `export TERMINFO=/usr/share/lib/terminfo'