On 11/14/2015 08:10 AM, David N Murray wrote: > Hi all, > > I've built several machines by installing Arch from scratch. Recently, > I built a Linode VM using their Arch image, dated 2015-08. From > there, I did a normal `pacman -Syu` to update the system. My problem > is probably trivial, annoying, and I haven't been able to figure it > out. I'm hoping someone can give me a hint on where to look. I've > been through the post-install docs and can't figure out what might be > causing this. > > The machine I'm on is running xfce and I'm using xfce4-terminal > 0.6.3. If I do something like `systemctl status`, I see output that > is mostly ascii characters: * on the first line next to the name of > the host, pipe (|) next to each line in the CGroup. If I ssh into > another local machine, I see the same thing. > > My problem is on the Linode box. When I ssh there and run the same > command, I'm seeing garbage where I see pipes next to each line in the > CGroup output. I don't know if this is going to paste properly, but > I'll try: > > Local: > CGroup: / > |-init.scope > > Linode: > CGroup: / > ├─init.scope > > On the linode box, those 2 characters actually occupy 6 characters in > the output and the last 5 characters are each drawn in a box and > overwrite the first character of the process name. All the characters > appear as "garbage." > > What's really strange is that the output from `top` is fine, and that > appears to use some graphics and color. > > Has anyone seen something like this? All sessions have the same TERM > variable (xterm). This is an area of any Linux I've never spent much > time. It always just worked out-of-the-box (for any distro I've ever > used). The only thing I can think of at this point is to try and diff > the two systems' /etc directories and see if I can track it down that > way. Maybe that's next. > > TIA, > Dave Is there any difference between the two vconsole.conf files in /etc ? That would be my first thought
