This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org. Please check that the From: line contains a valid email address. After a delay of up to one day, you should receive an acknowledgement at that address. Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators for other languages. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': Running the top command in an eshell shows the following error: 'eterm': unknown terminal type Running the top command in a shell works OK. If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file /usr/local/share/emacs/24.2/etc/DEBUG. In GNU Emacs 24.2.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2012-09-17 on Vishwam Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000 Configured using: `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: EShell Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-h f C-g C-h v m a i l - h o s C-x o C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p r a j a n i k a n t h @ g m a i l . c o m C-x 0 C-x RET e s h e M-x e s h e l l t o p C-p M-x r e p o C-x b * C-g M-x s h e l l C-x b M-x r e p o r t - e m Recent messages: Loading em-glob...done Loading em-hist...done Loading em-ls...done Loading em-prompt...done Loading em-script...done Loading em-term...done Loading em-unix...done term-send-raw-string: Current buffer has no process [6 times] Quit term-send-raw-string: Current buffer has no process [6 times] term-send-raw-string: Current buffer has no process Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils em-unix pcomplete comint regexp-opt ansi-color em-term term disp-table ehelp electric em-script em-prompt em-ls em-hist em-pred em-glob em-dirs em-cmpl em-basic esh-opt em-banner em-alias ring esh-var esh-io esh-cmd esh-ext esh-proc esh-arg eldoc esh-groups eshell esh-module esh-mode esh-util cus-edit cus-start cus-load wid-edit help-mode easymenu view help-fns time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) -- Rajanikanth