strange display(?) issue when using text editors inside containers via pct enter/web interface terminals

jvk1166z

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I've recently encountered this very odd issue while interacting with containers using pct or the web interface terminals, I'm not really sure how to describe it, so I'll just attach a video of happening in joe, although, it also affects other editors such as nano, just in a different way, which I can grab a clip of too if requested.

I noticed the bug first while using pct to manage my containers, and have since noticed that it occurs when I use the terminals in the web interface as well. If I SSH into my testing container, the text editors work fine, the text editors also work fine on the host OS. I recorded my clip using the IDRAC virtual console to eliminate the possibility of my terminal causing the issue.

I've spent the last few days, since the bug appeared, searching for solutions but I've so far come up empty handed, and as I have absolutely no clue what caused this to just randomly start happening out of the blue, I've come to ask here out of desperation. I could just work around this by SSHing all of the containers directly, but I prefer to use pct as I find it more convenient to remember container ids.

Here's the clip. One side note, I am just typing random characters in, so when you see "sfh;asdkjflaskdjf;lsakjdf" appear, that is actually what I'm typing.

The issue seems to be a display issue, and not actually screwing up the file data, I edited a copy of a random config file, just for testing, and then opened it back up and it appears to have edited the text correctly, and nothing is messed up about it that I can see.

The issue also seems to be happening with containers hosted on either of the two machines in my cluster.

Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully someone else has ran into this before.
 
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