On 2021-06-03 at 12:09:59 -0500, "David C. Rankin via arch-general" <arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
On 6/3/21 4:17 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
The new progressbar requires specific escape codes (part of VT100 terminal definition I think) to be supported.
Atleast one terminal emulator (qterminal ) has already been found not to support those , see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266831 .
Are those 3 machines using different terminal emulators ?
Lone_Wolf
I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the terminal is VT100 compatible. It really looked like there was a bad ANSI escape somewhere. It was night/day different than the last time I updated and I've probably update each of these boxes of 1000 times during the past 10 years or so.
I have a stupid question: Is it possible that one or more of those tabs are out of sync with respect to the actual size of the window and the remote systems? Years (if not decades) ago, there used to be problems along those lines if you (generic you) resized the terminal on the local machine because the remote machine wouldn't know about it. Since then, things like SIGWINCH work way better than they used to. To test that hypothesis, open a new local window and log in to one of the remote systems giving you trouble. (Now that I re-read that, it came out condescending, but that's not at all my intent. Someone downthread mentioned an ancient version of konsole and my brain went to that old problem. I'm only trying to explain your symptoms and a possible solution.)