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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