Bug#352127: xbase-clients: Unable to use startx/xinit with a terminal emulator as the client
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: important
I can unable to use startx or xinit to start an X session with a terminal
emulator as the client. The command I am using is 'startx xterm'.
With xterm, the window appears but a shell is never run. The mouse
cursor flickers when it hovers over the xterm window.
When I try rxvt, the entire window flickers constantly; when I try
gnome-terminal, the window appears and then disappears and the X session
ends.
Everything works if I use twm as the client.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.0.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdmx1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Font Server library
ii libglu1-xorg [libglu1] 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Authentication library
ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxfixes3 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous 'fix
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxkbfile1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Keyboard Extension file parsing
ii libxkbui1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Keyboard Extension user interfac
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Screen Saver client-side library
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System event recording an
ii libxv1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System video extension li
ii libxxf86dga1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Direct Graphics Access extension
ii libxxf86misc1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X miscellaneous extensions library
ii libxxf86vm1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Video Mode selection library
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa 3D graphics library [X.Org]
ii xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
Reply to: