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Hadron wrote:
<....>
> 
> Weird. I saw this for the first time today myself after Ubuntu crashed
> and I had to reinstall.\

I had installed the emacs-extra and emacs-goodies-el packages. I removed
them and the symptoms went away. 

BTW: I would add more to descriptions of the symptoms:
Letters were "dropping" from lines to lines beneath them. This behavior
was much like one of the very earliest viruses, if memory serves me.

Go figure!
Tim