> > What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived > > regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD, > > but it was fixed. > > The error for NetBSD was navigating the installer which was dumping a > lot of q's in the stream (unicode bar characters?).
Not unicode, but yes these are bars for boxes. The console trace you get printed to stdout with V=1 or DEBUG=1 has terminal sequences and non-printable characters stripped off, so the switch to the box drawing charset doesn't happen and you get those q's instead. cheers, Gerd PS: /me is busy installing ubuntu 18.04 guest to have a look ...
