Bug#471463: xterm fails to run, segfaults

[Richard Thrippleton <ret28@cam.ac.uk>]

Package: xterm
Version: 232-1
Severity: important

xterm, run with whatever arguments, exits with a segfault before bringing up a window. I've graded this as important rather than anything higher because it may work on other X servers, especially based on the gdb output.

The relevant part of the gdb backtrace from the point of segfault;
#0  0xb7d1eeef in XFindOnExtensionList () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#1  0xb7d16573 in _XF86BigfontFreeFontMetrics () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#2  0xb7d1665c in XFreeFont () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6


Richard

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2rt
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.5.0-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1+b1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                  2:1.0.4-1      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                   2.1.12-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                   7.3+1        X11 utilities
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

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