Bug#542396: xterm fails to start with some parameters
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 16:12:40 +0300, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 244-2
> Severity: normal
>
> xterm stars fine without any parameters and with "-geometry 80x52",
> but exits with "bus error" when started with "-geometry 98x34".
> In fact, it seems that any width other than 80 or 132 causes it to crash.
> Hmm ... no ... width of 120 seems to not crash it either.
>
> Anyway, it shouldn't crash with any width...
>
> While writing this, I also noticed that resizing xterm to certain
> widths will crash it.
>
This is probably related to unassigned memory accesses fixed upstream in 246.
I'll try to get that packaged next week.
Cheers,
Julien
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