Bug 492085

Summary: X application cannot start since libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10; stuck in XOpenIM
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hubert Verstraete <hubs>
Component: libX11Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 10CC: 2org2, bjorge, dominik, erik, jonathan, jvromans, kem, luisgarrido, peter.hutterer, rdieter, sandmann
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OS: Linux   
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Clone Of: 491915
: 491915 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-03-26 00:25:11 UTC Type: ---
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strace of xterm which hangs forever. none

Description Hubert Verstraete 2009-03-25 11:02:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
Since I received the libX11 update libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10 some X applications cannot start any more. They are stuck in the library function XOpenIM which never returns. It does not happen with applications made in GTK, but applications like xterm, xarkeia, mgdiff (use Motif) are now broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start xterm or xarkeia or mgdiff
  
Actual results:
No xterm window appear and xterm does not return.

Expected results:
Have the xterm window appear.

Additional info:
The work around is to downgrade to the previous release of libX11: libX11-1.1.4-6.fc10

The bug is probably the same encountered by windowmaker in bug #491915
Comment 1 Kelvin J. Hill 2009-03-25 12:37:27 UTC 
Created attachment 336632 [details]
strace of xterm which hangs forever.

This is an strace output from xterm, showing the problem.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-03-25 15:27:43 UTC 
*** Bug 492115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Misha Karpenko 2009-03-25 15:40:39 UTC 
I have the same bug - xterm window doesn't appear when launching under user or even root.
BUT it does appear executing "sudo xterm".
Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2009-03-25 15:53:09 UTC 
*** Bug 492140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Luis Garrido 2009-03-25 17:41:23 UTC 
For the sake of consolidation there seems to be yet another duplicate here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491813

This one has hit hard.
Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2009-03-26 00:25:11 UTC 
Consolidating all into Bug #491813.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491813 ***