Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 198492
xterm wont redirect display
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:37 EST
Description of problem: When you try to redirect the xterm display to another computer, you get a segmentation fault or error message "xterm xt error: cant open display: %s" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5 with all latest updates from yum How reproducible: On demand Steps to Reproduce: 1. Computer1, type: DISPLAY=192.168.0.101:0.0 2. Computer2, type: xhost + 3. Computer1, type: xterm & Actual results: segmentation fault or error message "xterm xt error: cant open display: %s" Expected results: xterm window on computer 2. Additional info: Computer 2 was running Red Hat 9 since RH9 allows displays to be redirected. Fedora Core 5 has issues receiving incoming X11 displays, see bug #197964.
I cannot reproduce this with the latest FC-5 xorg-x11-server-1.0.1-9.fc5.5 RPMs, AFTER I had removed the default 'ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp' from my /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc . I've tested displays from FC-4, FC-6, and RHEL-4 going to FC-5, and displays from FC-5 to FC-4, FC-6, and RHEL-4, and they all work OK, once the X server '-nolisten tcp' arg was removed and the X server restarted. Check that your X server on FC-5 is not being run with the 'nolisten' argument: # ps -ef | grep nolisten I've not been able to reproduce any xterm segmentation faults - please, if you experience an xterm segfault, append the core dump to this bug report : # ulimit -SH -c unlimited # xterm ... ( segfault, core dumped ) # gzip core.* and send the core.*.gz to me (jvdias@redhat.com) or append them to this bug report, also specifying the machine architecture and the output of this command: # rpm -qa xterm 'xorg-*' glibc thanks!