Package: aptitude Version: 0.7-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #796090 I'm seeing this as well. They change every time the screen redraws, so if I move the cursor through the list with up or down, or open the search box with / and start typing in it, every screen update causes the garbage to change. Seems highly likely that bad pointers ended up in the list of names.
Which names get the garbage seems deterministic; if I close aptitude, reopen it, and hit 'e' to open the "resolve dependencies" interface, the same packages have their names displayed as garbage. If I open the packages whose names are broken, the package information page displays just fine. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7 compiled at Aug 7 2015 19:34:17 Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20150730 Compiled against: apt version 4.16.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.4.1 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.16.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdf8336000) libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007f7812511000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f78122e1000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f78120b6000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7811eb0000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f7811bb1000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f78118e3000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f78116ca000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f78112c8000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f78110aa000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7810d2f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7810a2e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7810817000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f781046e000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f781026b000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7810066000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f780fe4b000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f780fc3b000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f780fa17000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f780f80f000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f780f609000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000560aa6fb8000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7-1 ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-15 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.4.1-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-15 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.21-1.2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-5 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information