Terminal text ends up overlapping with I attempt to push the up button while another command is running, such as ubuntu-bug

Asked by Seija K.

When I attempted to push the up button on the keyboard while apport was running, the text ^[[A^[[A^[[A appeared. When the command was done, the new line collided with the "^[[A^[[A^[[A" text.

pushing the up button made it even worse, as the history being displayed ended up as a garbled mess.

Only after writing a new command with a new line was the issue resolved, though the garbled text is still in the terminal until I clear the terminal and restart.

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04

gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Candidate: 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.28.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

I was running "ubuntu-bug plymouth" when this issue occurred at around 2:54 PM, EDT, on December 6, 2019.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Dec 6 14:57:03 2019
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.28.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

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Seija K. (rose128) said :
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