Bug 435439

Summary: xterm-232-1.fc8.rpm update causes segfault in xterm
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Thorne <j.i.thorne>
Component: xtermAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 234-1.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description James Thorne 2008-02-29 11:12:54 UTC
Description of problem:

Installing the latest update for xterm (232-1.fc8) causes xterm to seg fault.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

232-1.fc8

How reproducible:

Every time it's installed on both mine and my colleague's machines, either as
root or a normal user.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update xterm to 232-1.fc8:
# yum update xterm

2. Run xterm:
# xterm
Segmentation fault
  
Actual results:

Segmentation fault

Expected results:
xterm runs OK

Additional info:

Backing out to the previous version (229-2.fc8) fixes the problem:

# yum remove xterm
# yum install xterm-229-2.fc8
# xterm
(xterm runs OK)

$ uname -a
Linux hagrid 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

Comment 1 James Thorne 2008-02-29 11:12:54 UTC
Created attachment 296327 [details]
strace output for xterm-232-1.fc8

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-02-29 11:34:55 UTC
Can you please try xterm-233-1.fc9 from rawhide?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xterm/233/1.fc9/i386/xterm-233-1.fc9.i386.rpm

Comment 3 James Thorne 2008-02-29 11:40:25 UTC
The rawhide RPM works a treat.  Thanks.

I forgot to mention that we were forwarding X over SSH to cygwin X.  When I
found a colleague with a local gnome desktop, xterm worked OK displaying to his
desktop so maybe it's something to do with that.

Thanks for the pointer to the rawhide RPM.

Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-02-29 11:48:08 UTC
Ok, I'll prepare updates for F7 and F8.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-02-29 12:04:26 UTC
xterm-233-1.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-02-29 12:04:58 UTC
xterm-233-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 7 James Thorne 2008-02-29 13:35:49 UTC
Cool.  Thanks Miroslav.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-03-01 09:25:45 UTC
xterm-233-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xterm'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-2130

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-03-03 17:06:04 UTC
xterm-234-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-03-03 17:06:08 UTC
xterm-234-1.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 11 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-03-11 15:53:11 UTC
*** Bug 436897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-03-13 07:46:33 UTC
xterm-234-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-03-13 07:48:37 UTC
xterm-234-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 James Thorne 2008-03-13 10:14:45 UTC
Works fine.  Thanks for fixing it.