Bug#370106: crashes with xterm: symbol lookup error: xterm: undefined symbol: _XA_UTF8_STRING
Package: xterm
Version: 210-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
After a recent upgrade, xterm and other X apps (like xmessage) crash on
startup with xterm: symbol lookup error: xterm: undefined symbol:
_XA_UTF8_STRING. I think it's not a bug in xterm, but in some X libraries.
I attach an output of strace:
execve("/usr/bin/xterm", ["xterm"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="kocour", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8093000
fcntl64(0, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(1, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(2, F_GETFD) = 0
access("/etc/suid-debug", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7f45000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7f44000
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=113186, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 113186, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xa7f28000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXft.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240:\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=72688, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 75624, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7f15000
mmap2(0xa7f27000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x11) = 0xa7f27000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\237\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=185144, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 191880, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7ee6000
mmap2(0xa7f0f000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x28) = 0xa7f0f000
mmap2(0xa7f14000, 3464, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7f14000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXaw.so.7", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@\320\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=371080, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 370800, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e8b000
mmap2(0xa7edf000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x54) = 0xa7edf000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200I\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=430057, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 81352, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e77000
mmap2(0xa7e8a000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12) = 0xa7e8a000
mprotect(0xafb57000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXext.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p&\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=53764, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 57020, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e69000
mmap2(0xa7e76000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xc) = 0xa7e76000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXt.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \276\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=324628, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e68000
mmap2(NULL, 325240, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e18000
mmap2(0xa7e64000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x4c) = 0xa7e64000
mmap2(0xa7e67000, 1656, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e67000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libSM.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0 \0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=31808, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 34840, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e0f000
mmap2(0xa7e17000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x7) = 0xa7e17000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libICE.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\3006\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=86100, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 96400, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7df7000
mmap2(0xa7e0c000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x14) = 0xa7e0c000
mmap2(0xa7e0d000, 6288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e0d000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libX11.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\22\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=817248, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 817244, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7d2f000
mmap2(0xa7df4000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xc5) = 0xa7df4000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\345"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=267104, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 268396, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7ced000
mmap2(0xa7d26000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x39) = 0xa7d26000
mmap2(0xa7d2e000, 2156, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7d2e000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260O\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1270928, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1276892, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7bb5000
mmap2(0xa7ce3000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12e) = 0xa7ce3000
mmap2(0xa7ceb000, 7132, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7ceb000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0Pl\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=443032, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7bb4000
mmap2(NULL, 441892, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7b48000
mmap2(0xa7bb1000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x69) = 0xa7bb1000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\26"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79684, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 78544, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7b34000
mmap2(0xa7b47000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13) = 0xa7b47000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\23"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30500, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 29352, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7b2c000
mmap2(0xa7b33000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x7) = 0xa7b33000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libexpat.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340 \0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=126860, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 129764, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7b0c000
mmap2(0xa7b2a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1d) = 0xa7b2a000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXpm.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 #\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=84972, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 87904, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7af6000
mmap2(0xa7b0b000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x14) = 0xa7b0b000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXau.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\n\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7300, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7af5000
mmap2(NULL, 10244, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7af2000
mmap2(0xa7af4000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xa7af4000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\16"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16976, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 19956, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7aed000
mmap2(0xa7af0000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x2) = 0xa7af0000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\f\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9592, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 12404, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7ae9000
mmap2(0xa7aeb000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xa7aeb000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7ae8000
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7ae7000
mprotect(0xa7ce3000, 20480, PROT_READ) = 0
writev(2, [{"xterm", 5}, {": ", 2}, {"symbol lookup error", 19}, {": ", 2}, {"xterm", 5}, {": ", 2}, {"undefined symbol: _XA_UTF8_STRIN"..., 33}, {"", 0}, {"", 0}, {"\n", 1}], 10xterm: symbol lookup error: xterm: undefined symbol: _XA_UTF8_STRING
) = 69
exit_group(127) = ?
Process 19009 detached
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.18
Locale: LANG=czech, LC_CTYPE=czech (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL set to cs_CZ)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 1:7.0.0-3 X Window System utility programs
-- debconf information:
* xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
xterm/xterm_needs_devpts:
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