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Virtual console corruption.



Howdy all,

A couple of weeks ago, my video card was damaged and, as a temporary
replacement, I'm using an old S3 card in console mode.  This is going
fine, and I've been quite surprised at how well I can get along without
X.

Anyhow, a couple of days ago I started experiencing some console
weirdness.  It started with mutt; all the line drawing (>127 ASCII)
characters got messed up leaving my index with just '>' characters in
front of each message and no threading.  It is now affecting the line
drawings in aptitude as well.  Of course, like all good bugs, it's
intermittent and I haven't been able to establish any list of steps to
bring it about.

I'm fairly sure it started just after an apt-get dist-upgrade a few days
ago, where linuxlogo was updated to it's new fan-doozy Linux/Penguin
logo.  Another possibility is keychain, which moved it's ssh-agent file
and caused trouble on login until I updated my .bash_profile.  Neither
of those make much sense to me, but they're all I can think of.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?  Or know how I could narrow
down the problem?

-rob

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