[GLLUG] Console Craziness

[STeve Andre']

On 07/02/12 22:37, Chick Tower wrote:
> My laptop, which runs Arch as well as some others, has developed a 
> problem.  Many programs that use console graphics don't draw the lines 
> and boxes the way they used to.  Instead of the nice lines, double 
> lines, what-have-you, I get letters from foreign alphabets.  Midnight 
> Commander is where I first noticed it, but it also affects elinks and 
> w3m.  In fact, in elinks it also replaces apostrophes with several 
> letters.  links is immune to the problem, though.  I don't recall 
> trying any others console programs, such as mutt or finch.  I've tried 
> searching the Arch forums, LinuxQuestions.org, and DuckDuckGo, and so 
> far the closest I've come up with are things that concern terminfo and 
> ANSI graphics, but I haven't found the solution yet.
>
> So far, this affects just my laptop and Arch.  I have Arch on two 
> desktop PCs, one of which has been upgraded to the level of the laptop 
> when I first noticed the problem on the laptop.  I haven't caught up 
> on the other desktop PC yet, but so far neither desktop PCs have shown 
> this problem.  I reinstalled ncurses and aalib to see if something may 
> have been corrupted or incompletely installed, but it had no effect.
>
> Have any of you ever had this problem with Arch, or any other distro 
> or BSD?  If so, how did you solve it?
>
>
>                                Chick

I don't think I have ever seen this on OpenBSD, if I'm understanding you.

When did this happen?

Have you changed anything--installed new software, changed something?

Can you categorize programs that do, and do not work.

Lastly, is this under X, or X/gnome or X/kde?

--STeve Andre'

ps: you've done a hard reboot?