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Bug#254674: xterm crashes on paste event



On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:36:52PM +0300, Andrey Lebedev wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:45:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 2) Run xterm with LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment.  You may have to
> > run xterm as root for this to work, as I think observance of this
> > variable might be suppressed for setuid and setgid programs (xterm is
> > setgid utmp).
> 
> I think I have problems running xterm with debug libraries linked. I
> have no experience with C debugging, so I might be doing something
> wrong.
> 
> I've installed debug packages you provided and have now a bunch of .so
> files in /usr/X11R6/lib/debug
> 
> I'm trying to run xterm this way:
> 
>   root@kedjob:~:)$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/debug/ gdb xterm
> 
> However after I run program in gdb prompt I see lots of the same "(no
> debugging symbols found)..." messages and backtrace is the same as in my
> previous post (i.e. without most of debugging symbols).

You'll still get a few, as xterm links against some libraries that aren't X
libraries, and won't have debugging symbols.

> So I guess there is something wrong in my procedure... Could you please
> help me with that?

Well, could you try just getting a core dump from xterm first?

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