Bug#256931: marked as done (xterm not liking -sb -si while running in vncserver)
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Subject: xterm not liking -sb -si while running in vncserver
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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]
[-T string] [-/+aw] [-/+cjk_width] [-/+dc] [-e command args ...] [%geom]
[#geom] [-hc color] [-/+hold] [-/+ie] [-/+im] [-into windowId] [-/+j]
[-/+k8] [-/+l] [-/+lc] [-lcc path] [-lf filename] [-/+ls] [-/+mb]
[-mc milliseconds] [-/+mesg] [-ms color] [-n string] [-nb number] [-/+nul]
[-/+pc] [-/+pob] [-/+rvc] [-/+rw] [-/+s] [-/+samename] [-/+sb] [-/+sf]
[-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-/+sm] [-/+sp] [-/+t] [-ti termid]
[-tm string] [-tn name] [-/+u8] [-/+ulc] [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-/+wc] [-/+wf]
[-ziconbeep percent]
Type xterm -help for a full description.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client data
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#256931: xterm not liking -sb -si while running in vncserver
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:59:21AM -0700, Jeff Bowden wrote:
> OK, go ahead and close this one. Something was really fucked up on that=
=20
> system. The difference in ltrace output for the working vs non-working=
=20
> setup made no sense so for sanity I did a cmp on the xterm binaries and=
=20
> they were different! The xterm binary on the broken system was somehow=20
> corrupted. I tried --reinstall and it was still was different from the=
=20
> one on the working system. Then I rebooted, did --reinstall again and=20
> now they are the same and it works.
Closing per submitter (local horkage on machine).
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