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[Mike Basinger]

This is the output after I typed 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. I only type the apt-get command, the extra blank space and command prompt lines were not added by me. It is almost like extra characters are being sent to the gnome-terminal. 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' works fine in a tty terminal.

dbasinge@mikebuntu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 0%
Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade...

Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-10-generic obex-data-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
  alsa-base alsa-utils bluez-gnome dhcp3-client dhcp3-common five-a-day
  gnome-menus gnome-session language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en
  libgnome-menu2 libsane libtotem-plparser10 linux-restricted-modules-common
  linux-restricted-modules-generic linux-sound-base nvidia-glx-new
  python-central python-gmenu sound-juicer system-config-printer-common
  system-config-printer-gnome totem totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla
  totem-plugins xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
28 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 31.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  five-a-day
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? E: Some packages could not be authenticated
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[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Do you see that in all terminals (gnome-terminal, xterm, linux-console without X)? It looks more like a terminal bug than a apt bug to me.

Cheers,
 michael

[Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)]

Only in gnome-terminal, but only apt has this problem.