When I login in one of the extra virtual terminals there always come odd signs or control characters between my actual input. For example I type administrator and after the adm some garbage gets inserted.
Something similar happened just now in a session, I was editing /etc/network/interfaces in vim when I pressed ESC and : there appeared a huge load of 787878787878787878787878.........787878787878787878787878 ending with (propably from the file itself) .255
It seems like some ghost input. I am really tired now because currently every single one of my devices is quirky or always breaks randomly. I spent the last weeks more time fixing stuff than actually doing something I want.
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or:redraw!
. What is the TERM variable set to? It might be set wrong.