Comment 7 for bug 211247

Hm.. it could be related to gnome-terminal (?)

$ aptitude --version
aptitude 0.4.9 compiled at Apr 4 2008 09:45:25
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)

NCurses version: 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.17

It happened again:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude purge kvm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

Building tag database... 0%

Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  bochsbios daemon debootstrap libvdeplug2 qemu vde2 vgabios
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kvm{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 35.9MB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 156359 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing qemu ...
Removing bochsbios ...
Removing daemon ...
Removing debootstrap ...
(Reading database ... 156202 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kvm ...
 * Succesfully unloaded kvm module kvm_intel
Purging configuration files for kvm ...
(Reading database ... 156139 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vde2 ...
Removing libvdeplug2 ...
Removing vgabios ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://www.virtualbox.org gutsy Release.gpg
Ign http://www.virtualbox.org gutsy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.virtualbox.org gutsy Release
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.virtualbox.org gutsy/non-free Packages
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Reading package lists... Done
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

Building tag database... 0%

Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
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