Bug#256931: xterm not liking -sb -si while running in vncserver

[Jeff Bowden <jeffb@vulcan.com>]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:10:18AM +0200, Jeff wrote:
>  
>
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I'm running it from within a vncserver session using xfce4 as
> > session/window manager.  Same version of xterm seems to not exhibit
> > these problems on another machine running X to the screen and
> > gnome/metacity.
> >
> > $ xterm -sb
> > xterm:  bad command line option "-sb"
> >
> > usage:  xterm [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
> >    [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [-C] [-Sccn]
> >    
>
> I haven't seen this one before.  Can you get this behavior from the
> command-line?  Looks like something's trashed memory (on startup, xterm
> constructs the sorted help-message, but that's independent of the
> resource computation - but the help-message is trashed).
>  

I'm not sure what you mean.  That *is* the behaviour I get from the 
command line.

I ran strace on it in both the broken and working configurations.  They 
diverge at the point where the working configuration looks at a bunch of 
locale files and the broken one doesn't.

Let me know if there's any specific tests you want me to run.