Bug#354278: uxterm only starts sometimes on Thinkpad

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Package: xterm
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm
>
> No idea why uxterm dies half a second after started in about 2/3rds on
> invocations on Linux 2.6.12 on Thinkpad r50e. However, on Linux
> 2.6.14-2-k7 it starts every time.

nor I - I don't recall seeing a report like that.

> $ xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8: same problem.
>
> Anyways, on Thinkpad one must do
> uxterm ^P RET uxterm ^P RET uxterm ^P RET several times until one
> finally gets one that doesn't die at birth.
>
> Yes, LANG=zh_TW.utf8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8, which pulls in luit.
>
> strace shows:
> < --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> < wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL)                = 6019
> < rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x8074f00, [CHLD], SA_RESTART}, {0x8074f00,
> [], SA_RESTART|SA_NOCLDSTOP}, 8) = 0
> < kill(-6019, SIGHUP)                     = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
> < access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
>
> $ nice uxterm and even nice -n 0 uxterm do help somewhat I found.
>
> By the way, the first two of the below must not be used, even if they
> instead don't cause the above crash on birth.
> $ c=zh_TW.Utf8 ;LC_CTYPE=$c LANG=$c LC_ALL=$c xterm -u8
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> $ c=zh_TW.UTF8 ;LC_CTYPE=$c LANG=$c LC_ALL=$c xterm -u8
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> $ c=zh_TW.utf8 ;LC_CTYPE=$c LANG=$c LC_ALL=$c xterm -u8
> #uses luit .... and indeed the only way to see unicode

With #209, I'm not seeing a warning from any of those flavors.

> Then "how dare" /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm do
>  value=`echo ${value} |sed -e 's/[.@].*//'`.UTF-8
> when isn't lowercase .utf-8 right? locale -a seems to says so.

iirc, glibc converts the case (and other systems seem to generally use the 
uppercase).  I've been using the values in /etc/locale.gen

> Anyway, the
>  Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> won't often be seen as the new window covers up the old.

that depends on the geometry settings (and window manager).

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