Just to make sure, you're not using archinstall when that "jumping around" happens right? Because if that's the case, then it's my fault and not pacman :) On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, 10:34 David C. Rankin via arch-general, < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/1/21 6:57 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > > On 01/06/2021 23:15, Yash Karandikar via arch-general wrote: > >> My guess is that they'll update that once pacman 6 hits stable. > > > > pacman=6.0.0-2 is already in stable. ;) > > > > and it has terminal output issues bigtime. Whatever is causing it the > download > meter and filename jump back and for by 4-8 characters hundreds of time, > sometime injecting a newline. The following is the output from tonight's > update: > > :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] > :: Retrieving packages... > ca-certificates-utils-20210529-1-any > Total (0/6) 0.0 B 0.00 B/s 00:00 > [--------------------------------------] 0% > ca-certificates-20210529-1-any-1-any 7.9 KiB 149 KiB/s 00:00 > [######################################] 100% > Total (1/6) 7.9 KiB 0.00 B/s --:-- > [--------------------------------------] 0% > js78-78.11.0-1-x86_64529-1-any 2009.0 B 36.3 KiB/s 00:00 > [######################################] 100% > Total (2/6) 7.9 KiB 0.00 B/s --:-- > [--------------------------------------] 0% > poppler-21.06.0-1-x86_64 10.5 MiB 5.92 MiB/s 00:02 > [######################################] 100% > Total (3/6) 9.7 MiB 5.83 MiB/s 00:23 > [##------------------------------------] 6% > libreoffice-still-7.0.6-2-x86_64 1333.0 KiB 4.88 MiB/s 00:00 > [######################################] 100% > Total (4/6) 11.7 MiB 5.35 MiB/s 00:25 > [###-----------------------------------] 8% > poppler-glib-21.06.0-1-x86_64_64 134.0 MiB 5.94 MiB/s 00:23 > [######################################] 100% > Total (5/6) 144.9 MiB 6.09 MiB/s 00:00 > [#####################################-] 99% > Total (6/6) 146.1 MiB 5.82 MiB/s 00:25 > [######################################] 100% > > That's just bizarre. Haven't seen this behavior before in the last decade+. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > >
