I student of mine told me, that he had to reinstall his system after trying to upgrade it from an xterm (after that he read, that upgrading should be done from console). Maybe it would be worth to check to TERM variable and upgrade only, if it is not xterm, etc. --Rainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-testing-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org