On 6/7/21 4:46 AM, Xiretza via arch-general wrote:
From pacman.conf(5):
ParallelDownloads Specifies number of concurrent download streams. The value needs to be a positive integer. If this config option is not set then only one download stream is used (i.e. downloads happen sequentially).
Found that after the error, but setting ParallelDownloads = 1 Makes no difference whatsoever. The same discombobulated output is seen, e.g. :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages... inetutils-2.0-1-x86_64 Total (0/5) 0.0 B 0.00 B/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------] 0% libgusb-0.3.7-1-x86_64 345.3 KiB 2.06 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% Total (1/5) 15.8 KiB 0.00 B/s --:-- [--------------------------------------] 0% liblouis-3.18.0-1-x86_64 65.1 KiB 857 KiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% Total (2/5) 361.1 KiB 523 KiB/s 00:11 [#-------------------------------------] 5% mpg123-1.28.0-1-x86_6464 2.0 MiB 4.67 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% Total (3/5) 1898.4 KiB 2.48 MiB/s 00:01 [###########---------------------------] 30% openmpi-4.1.1-1-x86_64 432.7 KiB 2.35 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% Total (4/5) 2.5 MiB 2.58 MiB/s 00:01 [##############------------------------] 39% Total (5/5) 6.2 MiB 3.13 MiB/s 00:02 [######################################] 100% I'll just live with it until I have time to dig into the pacman source and find out what this supposed "new feature" is that screws up old terminals. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.