On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:54:11PM +0200, Leonard Norrgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On startup aptitude often displays random color bars and/or random characters > on the initial > screen (see sample screenshots attached). > > Once the program is started, subsequent views are shown ok. > > The initial screen can be refreshed with issuing a Control-l, which corrects > the display. The > problem does not re-appear by issuing many Control-l:s. > > This happens on a fast cpu (AMD Athlon X2 5200+) and seems to be a race > condition, as the > results vary from one invocation to another. The garbled screens show up > about 15% of the > time when starting aptitude on this system.
Hi, Is this a single-cpu or dual-cpu system? Daniel
