As a temporary fix you could just:
$ export TERM=xterm
Though that'd only persist until you logout/back in.
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On Monday, January 16, 2012 at 1:04pm, Ole-Morten Duesund wrote:
> On 16/01/12 13:52, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:44:57AM -0000, Mathew Newton wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > On Sun, January 15, 2012 8:59 pm, Ian wrote:
> > >
> > > > 4. Doing the upgrade via the console had an issue with some of the alert
> > > > boxes ('you've made changes to this file - do you want to keep them or
> > > > install the package maintainer's version' sort of thing) staying on
> > > > screen. Towards the end, I had one viewable line of text.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That's interesting - I see that all the time in the console and assumed it
> > > was something to do with the configuration at my end (accessing via
> > > Putty).
> > >
> > > For normal scrolling text I don't have any problems with the console,
> > > however when editing in-situ e.g. with nano/emacs the screen often starts
> > > to freeze and the effective text window decreases until I have no choice
> > > but to disconnect and try again.
> > >
> > > It is little more than a pain at the moment, however I was planning an
> > > Lenny-to-Squeeze upgrade and am concerned now as I really don't want any
> > > issues like this mid way.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this and/or got any ideas how to resolve it?
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf doesn't help if you configure it to use dialog
> > or something that should fit your terminal ?
> >
>
>
> I believe the problem is that in a xen-console you get a "linux"-type
> terminal, which appears to be rather limited.
>
> $ echo $TERM
>
> while in the console returns "linux" at least in my private xen-setup.
> I don't know if it is possible to change this.
>
> - OM
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