I catch an Error exit status 1

[Gidrex]

Lazygit crashes immediately on startup with an exec.ExitError exit status 1.

Version info:

• lazygit --version

commit=, build date=, build source=nix, version=0.54.2, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.50.1

• git --version

git version 2.50.1

Additional context

When I start lazygit that drop an error

  Error occurs immediately on startup. Stack trace shows:
  *exec.ExitError exit status 1
  github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:55 (0xca1a1f)
  github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/app/entry_point.go:172 (0xca3be6)
  github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/main.go:23 (0xca4f98)
  internal/runtime/atomic/types.go:194 (0x445ccb)
  runtime/asm_amd64.s:1700 (0x482f81)

Running on Fedora 42 with lazygit installed via nix(home-manager). In additional, I tried install lazygit via dnf with dejan/lazygit repo and catch a same error.

[Gidrex]

I fixed this error. The problem was that the TERM variable was incorrectly specified and lazygit was trying to start in tty. If you want, you can add a try catch for this case adding warning by not propertly set variable.

[cattyman919]

I can confirm this issue is based on the TERM environment variable

Incorrectly specified TERM variable

> export TERM=skibidi
> lazygit
Not in a git repository. Create a new git repository? (y/N): N
2025/09/07 18:49:56 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*exec.ExitError exit status 1
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:55 (0xc9d2bf)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/entry_point.go:172 (0xc9f486)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/main.go:23 (0xca0838)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.5/x64/src/internal/runtime/atomic/types.go:194 (0x443f6b)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.5/x64/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1700 (0x480ca1)

Unspecified TERM variable

> unset TERM
> lazygit
Not in a git repository. Create a new git repository? (y/N): N
2025/09/07 18:52:22 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*fmt.wrapError terminal entry not found: term not set
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:55 (0xc9d2bf)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/entry_point.go:172 (0xc9f486)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/main.go:23 (0xca0838)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.5/x64/src/internal/runtime/atomic/types.go:194 (0x443f6b)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.5/x64/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1700 (0x480ca1)

I will try adding a better error messages in the error handling.