Bug#319822: xterm dies upon opening some programs

[Dirk Van Hertem <dirk.vanhertem@ieee.org>]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Dirk Van Hertem wrote:
>   
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 226-1
> > Followup-For: Bug #319822
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think I can confirm this bug. (I am not sure it is the same, but I think so).
> >
> > Sometimes, xterm dies when I open a program, for instance when I start "man useradd", "bitchx" or other programs. aterm does not seem to be effected.
> >     
>
> "Somtimes".  The problem is in reproducing it.  If you retry the same
> command sequence, can you get it to break again?
>
>   
Well, the sometimes should be rather "with some programs". E.g. when 
starting bitchx, man, mutt... it *always* kills the terminal. When using 
other applications: emacs, gv, ls, xterm itselves,... there is no problem.

My apologies for the unclear formulation.

Dirk

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