>Oh crap, it appears to be libncurses5 updated this morning - this makes >life rather unhappy - dselect is eqaully afflicted.
Gutted. Here's a small hack that might help. Save this as something like /lib/libBrokenGmonStart.so and create /etc/ld.so.preload containing the path to that library. p.
libBrokenGmonStart.so
Description: libBrokenGmonStart.so
