sid: system unusable after upgrade: tput invalid option -- 2

["Dot Deb" <dotdeb@gmail.com>]

	Dear all,

	today I had a very bad experience and I hope to find the
	solution with your help.

	I upgraded my debian/sid after many weeks and I found that, at
	boot, each init script stops with the error:

tput invalid option -- 2

	I do no quite understand WHO is invoking tput an WHO passes it
	the wrong argument.

	This makes my system unusable. Any help is really appreciated.

	augh