Severity: grave Downgrading ncurses back to Debian Stretch versions fixes the issue for me.
Namely, to libncurses5_6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2_amd64.deb libtinfo5_6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2_amd64.deb ncurses-base_6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2_all.deb -- With respect, Roman
