Description of problem: Trying to run xterm with absurd geometry values. Here's the exact cmdline: 'xterm -bg Wheat -fg Navy -sl 1000 -sb -geometry 8001111x323' Version-Release number of selected component: xterm-286-1.fc17 Additional info: libreport version: 2.0.18 abrt_version: 2.0.18 backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: xterm -bg Wheat -fg Navy -sl 1000 -sb -geometry 8001111x323 crash_function: copyLineData kernel: 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 truncated backtrace: :Thread no. 1 (10 frames) : #0 copyLineData at ./linedata.c:122 : #1 extractScrnData at ./screen.c:263 : #2 Reallocate at ./screen.c:502 : #3 ScreenResize at ./screen.c:1967 : #4 XtConfigureWidget at Geometry.c:681 : #5 XtResizeWidget at Geometry.c:594 : #6 XawVendorShellExtResize at Vendor.c:445 : #7 XtDispatchEventToWidget at Event.c:882 : #8 _XtDefaultDispatcher at Event.c:1344 : #9 XtDispatchEvent at Event.c:1423
Created attachment 677818 [details] File: core_backtrace
Created attachment 677819 [details] File: environ
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Created attachment 677821 [details] File: limits
Created attachment 677822 [details] File: smolt_data
Created attachment 677823 [details] File: cgroup
Created attachment 677824 [details] File: executable
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Created attachment 677829 [details] File: var_log_messages
In a quick check, I get xterm: Error 91, errno 12: Cannot allocate memory Reason: Alloc: calloc() failed on rows (I see that the limits are higher on your machine than my VM - perhaps that allows the geometry to get into some interesting area).
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