You (Richard Hall) wrote: > I'm having the same problem ever since I upgraded to glibc6. I haven't > figured it out either, just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone. It turns out that xterm needs to be suid root. I figured this out after I noticed that rxvt and xvt didn't have this problem. The fact that it doesn't set itself up as suid root is a bug in slink. Max