Bug 228653

Summary:	xterm crashes when outputing weird characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rene Cunningham <rene>
Component:	xterm	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	6	CC:	dickey, triage
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Description Rene Cunningham 2007-02-14 06:35:49 UTC

Description of problem:

Xterm closes when outputing weird characters such as ones generated from
/dev/random.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xterm-223-2.fc6

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /dev/random
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
xterm crashes. Running xterm from another xterm in the foreground produces the
following when it crashes.

xterm:  warning, error event received:
X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  77 (X_ImageText16)
  Serial number of failed request:  299
  Current serial number in output stream:  761


Expected results:

Random characters

Additional info:

Also happens when viewing certain pages in lynx, when viewing ALL manpages, and
using mutt in screen.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-02-14 09:09:43 UTC

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it.

Is this on a xinerama setup? Any resource settings for xterm? Which video driver
is used?

Comment 2 Thomas E. Dickey 2007-02-25 00:54:19 UTC

It would help to have a non-random set of data which breaks it,
since the cause would be some specific code sequence.

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-04-16 13:24:11 UTC

Can you please try xterm-225-1.fc6 from FC6 updates testing repository?

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:13:55 UTC

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:13:31 UTC

This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.