The attached photo should look familiar to anyone who has installed
Ubuntu a few times.  The dialog is not one I have seen before, but the
display artefacts are.

(This particular error came up when I upgraded a system from Feisty to
Gutsy.  I don't think I'm prepared to file a bug report about that.)

** Attachment added: "Debconf console font problem"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11217091/08012008.jpg

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: console-data
  
- I am aware of bug 60060 but as a partial workaround and general remedy,
+ I am aware of bug 60600 but as a partial workaround and general remedy,
  I would like to suggest that the default console font should be one
  which is capable of displaying whiptail dialogs correctly, or else the
  debconf whiptail dialogs changed to not try the somewhat capricious task
  of drawing borders with characters which are often not rendered
  correctly.

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Default console font unsuitable for debconf / whiptail
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181334
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