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Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console



John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 19 mars 2017 21:19:19 +0100, wrote:
> On 03/19/2017 07:32 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Another way would be to use
> > 
> > export NCURSES_NO_PADDING=1
> > before screen gets started
> 
> This fixes it. I can just add "NCURSES_NO_PADDING=1" to the kernel
> command line and the problem is fixed immediately. d-i looks
> normal again.

Ok. Now, it is actually a bug in screen, which shouldn't be emitting
them because vt102 has xon/xoff flow control:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50588

I'm wondering whether we want to include the fix in Stretch?

Samuel


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