[pacman-dev] -Qi output corrupted when using screen

[Roman Kyrylych]

Hi!

It has been a looong time since I last posted here
(or even read the list), so please forgive me
if this is a known issue.

I have a VPS on Linode and they have a tool called LISH
which is a minimal environment that is accessible via
logging in via ssh on the _host_.
There is a screen session that shows the output from
/dev/hvc0 (which is hardware tty in Xen),
so you can access your system even if you locked
yourself from accessing it via ssh.

When doing pacman -Qi in that screen session
I get corrupted output like this:
<some text from the top of the host's tty buffer goes here first>
                 Feb
                 2010
                 12:14:18
                 AM
                 UTC
Install Date   : Sun
                 14
                 Feb
                 2010
                 02:21:13
                 PM
                 UTC
Install Reason : Explicitly
                 installed
Install Script : Yes
Description    : Utility
                 programs
                 used
                 for
                 creating
                 patch
                 files

This happens only when doing -Qi.

Any ideas about this?
And if it's a known issue - how to fix it?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)