Comment 9 for bug 887445

> I see some messages from bum but also this

> ^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B

> That doesn't seem right to me. (What can cause this?)

That could certainly be related to the console being in the wrong state.

> I guess I'll have to look elsewhere to find why those scripts are
> behaving this way since it's not really an ubuntu specific issue. I can
> add though that the scripts did not cause any problems in 11.04.

This could be caused /etc/init/rc.conf having 'console output' in 11.10, which allows init scripts to interact with the console. But init scripts *should* limit their interaction to sending output. You could try redirecting input and output to /dev/null within the script, to see if this fixes the problem.

Anyway, closing this bug report as invalid. Thanks for following up.