Comment 7 for bug 334744

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Ville M. Vainio <email address hidden> wrote:
> If nocolor works, You migth also want to try "ipython -p sh". Just to
> test whether it's the particular escape sequence in default prompt that
> is screwing your terminal.
>
> I'd be quick to point at a buggy readline.

Very possible. The odd thing though is that I'm running the same OS.
Aviad, do you have any non-standard repo enabled?

Please show us the output of:

 apt-cache show readline-common

This is what my box shows:

Package: readline-common
Priority: important
Section: base
Installed-Size: 136
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: readline5
Version: 5.2-3build1
Replaces: libreadline4 (<< 4.3-16), libreadline5 (<< 5.0-11), libreadline-common
Conflicts: libreadline5 (<< 5.0-11), libreadline-common
Filename: pool/main/r/readline5/readline-common_5.2-3build1_all.deb
Size: 50926

Cheers,

f