Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 492219
Recent updates have broken xterm
Last modified: 2009-03-26 04:59:06 EDT
Description of problem: xterm 242-2 and 242-3 (from rawhide) both hang indefinitely before displaying main window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xterm-242-2.fc10.i586 xterm-242-3.fc11.i586 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10 2. Try to run xterm or uxterm Actual results: Both xterm and uxterm indefinitely before displaying main window Expected results: The main vt100 widget displays as per normal. Additional info: This obviously could be a bug in libX11, but gnome-terminal and other gtk apps all appear to fo be functioning normally. "strace" shows xterm process is stuck in a select: read(3, "\1\0\234\0\0\0\0\0f\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2101\352\10\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 32 read(3, 0x85279dc, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3]) writev(3, [{"\30\1\6\0.\0\0\7i\1\0\0f\1\0\0f\1\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 24}], 1) = 24 select(4, [3], [], NULL, NULL
The hang in the select occurs without the main window displaying at all.
Closing as duplicate of the libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10 failure tracker. Just out of curiosity, is it fixed by upgrade to libX11-1.2-3.fc11 in rawhide? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491813 ***