Bug#370106: crashes with xterm: symbol lookup error: xterm: undefined symbol: _XA_UTF8_STRING

[Hynek Med <Hynek.Med@seznam.cz>]

> ----------------------------------------
> severity 370106 important
> tags 370106 unreproducible moreinfo
> kthxbye
> 
> On Sat, Jun  3, 2006 at 13:24:24 +0200, Hynek Med wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> Hi,
> I'm unable to reproduce this problem, xterm runs just fine here.
> 
> $ objdump -T /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6|grep _XA_UTF8_STRING
> 000156e8 g    DO .data  00000004  Base        _XA_UTF8_STRING
> $ objdump -T /usr/bin/xterm|grep _XA_UTF8_STRING
> 08090f2c g    DO .bss   00000004              _XA_UTF8_STRING
> 
> Could you send us the output of
> "md5sum /usr/bin/xterm /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6.2.0"
> and
> "dpkg -l xterm libxmu6"


bash-3.1$ md5sum /usr/bin/xterm /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6.2.0
9d36f0fe3ebfc607495498f7d4b3c4df  /usr/bin/xterm
e66d4a30e2ff67df50093d56e8968e49  /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6.2.0
bash-3.1$ dpkg -l xterm libxmu6
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libxmu6        1.0.1-3        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  xterm          210-3          X terminal emulator

Thanks,

Hynek