Bug#362227: xterm fails to start: X Error of failed request: BadRequest

[Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>]

Package: xterm
Version: 210-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I tried this on two boxes with Xorg 7.0: both expose the same behaviour:
hildeb@knarzkiste:~$ xterm
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (XFIXES)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  23 (XFixesSetCursorName)
  Serial number of failed request:  30
  Current serial number in output stream:  31

Same for rxvt:
hildeb@knarzkiste:~$ rxvt
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (XFIXES)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  23 (XFixesSetCursorName)
  Serial number of failed request:  86
  Current serial number in output stream:  87
	
hildeb@knarzkiste:~$ amule
The program 'amule' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 85 error_code 1 request_code 152 minor_code 23)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

So, this rather seems to be an error in the Xserver. This did NOT happen
with an older Xorg 7.0 package I recently installed from
experimental


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1-git5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1                2.3.2-5.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.0-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                        1:1.0.0-3  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.0-5  X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                       1:1.0.1-4  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.0-3  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.8.2-6  FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                       1:1.0.1-2  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.0-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xlibs-data                    1:7.0.10   transitional package for X11 clien

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                        1:7.0.0-3  X Window System utility programs

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