On 11/14/2015 11:35 AM, Zorro wrote:
Op 14-11-2015 om 17:10 schreef David N Murray:
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
Maybe you can check the LANG setting?
I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and TERM=xterm-utf8.
Changing LANG=en_US on my system changes the drawn lines in the output
of systemctl status into pipelines.
Regards,
Harm-Jan Zwinderman
Cebuned.svipr.nl/Cebuned.html
Thanks for the tip on /etc/vconsole.conf Don. My local machines don't
have one. The Linode box contents are:
KEYMAP=us
FONT=
FONT_MAP=
Harm-Jan, you nailed it. On my local box LANG=en_US, on the Linode
LANG=en_US.UTF-8. When I switch the encoding in the xfce terminal to
Unicode/UTF-8 I get the actual line drawing characters (which look even
better than the pipe, dash (|-) that I'm used to seeing).
Thanks!
Dave
