I've noticed that for a week or so the dialog for slackpkg 2.83.0/slackpkg+ 1.7.0 looks like the attached image. I'm doing this in konsole an otherwise up-to-date slackware-current system.



Obviously it's still usable like this, but it's ugly and at any rate probably shouldn't be happening.

I finally got some time to play with it today, and I started by looking through the -current changelog to see any likely culprits. I noticed that on August 5, upgraded aaa_terminfo and ncurses packages were put out, so I started there.

Removing the new aaa_terminfo and replacing it with the version from 14.2 seems to fix it for now, and I can blacklist aaa_terminfo so slackpkg doesn't replace it, but I was wondering if anyone else has encountered a similar problem and/or has thoughts on what I might be able to do to not have to keep an old package version installed.

In thread by burning, this was brought up. And there were a few who posted their fix.

Are there only a few of us who work at the konsole?

And thanks for your work-around.

I work in konsole all the time in -current and I don't experience the op's issue. Are either of you using a ~.bashrc or some other term mod that might be impacting dialog boxes?

Are you talking about this thread? I'm not sure it's the same issue--I'm not getting random/unexpected characters showing up; spacing and alignment are just messed up. Also, their issue seems to predate the aaa_terminfo upgrade that seems to be the culprit for mine?

Here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6155898

I had that problem sometime ago, it was happening with pkgtools too, but now only affects slackpkg+ (not slackpkg).
As a workaround I'm running 'TERM=konsole slackpkg ...'