mergemaster fails in single user mode

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-02 16:24, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to -CURRENT (yesterdays). Everything goes well, I reboot
> into single user mode, mount all partitions and run 'make installworld'
>
> To finish the upgrade I run "mergemaster" still in single user mode, but
> this fails with the following output:
>
> # /usr/sbin/mergemaster
>
> tput: no terminal type specified and no TERM environmental variable.

Hmmm, AFAIK, this shouldn't happen.  Do you have a /.profile file?