Spawning echoes/returns following some commands

Not sure if I can describe this It seems to only be happening when I drop down to init 3 from init 4

If I do a slackpkg update the command finishes successfully, but I see the command prompt repeated a number of times. Sometimes it's just 3 or 4 other times it may be tens of times so much that the output from slackpkg disappears of the screen

Quote:

739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $ 739 KDE-503: /root $

Same goes for other commands such as ls.

It gets a bit frustrating when running slackpkg upgrade-all when there's been a change to the kernel and new config files. All those nice messages about a new kernel and new config files disappear of the top of the screen.

Generally I know that there's a new kernel.

For the new config files I have to run

slackpkg new-config

several times

Any thoughts as to what's going wrong?