ugly block cursor in emacs after dist-upgrade

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

hi,

after running a dist-upgrade on my potato system today emacs (in 
console) started displaying a big fat ugly blinking block cursor 
instead of the regular `_' that the rest of the console has..

what caused this and how do I fix it?  the rest of the console is as 
it always was. I thought it might have been something fiddling with 
svgatextmode but on another potato box i just upgraded does not have 
that package installed at all and exhibits the same new ugly block 
cursor.


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