On 2021-06-03 at 14:00:08 -0400, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general <arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
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.
My guess would be that the old (KDE Trinity) version of konsole that you're using doesn't support some modern feature of terminals.
FWIW, I use xterm (currently at version 367), and I also noticed a difference in the output after the recent pacman upgrade. I haven't seen the level of disruption reported in this thread, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't see the "total" bandwidth/time output until the downloads were complete before, either. There's an extra blank line after that total line, too, instead of whatever is being downloaded showing progress on the very last line of the xterm window. (I figured it was a small improvement to see that line during the downloads, and let it go at that. No, I have no physical evidence of the change, only my recollection.)