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Josselin Poiret skribis: > Julien Lepiller writes: >> I installed Guix on a new drive, so I tried the installer from the lates= t image. After reviewing the system config, the installer goes to a black s= creen where guix output is shown. Although I can see messages about substit= utes being updated, and how much will be downloaded, all download lines are= replaced with a seemingly random number of dots: >> >> substitute: mise =C3=A0 jour des substituts depuis =C2=AB=E2=80=A6=C2=BB= ... 100.0 % >> 4.5 Mo seront t=C3=A9l=C3=A9charg=C3=A9s. >> . >> ... >> . >> . >> ...... >> >> Maybe this is related to the translation? > > I agree that this does look pretty bad, but this is because we capture > the guix command output to a log file so that we're able to include it > in the installer dump if anything goes wrong. Guix detects it's not > talking directly to a terminal and so doesn't try to use terminal > specific escape codes to display the download progress. I don't know > how we could improve on that front though, since in general capturing > the guix command output helps with debugging issues. This is a duplicate of , marked as important. I think capturing all the output as-is is overkill; one option I suggested in the bug report above is to syslog specific events of interest during =E2=80=98guix system init=E2=80=99. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.