Bug#721978: xterm: "ls -al /etc/ssl/certs" causes xterm to stop
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:10:33PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:53:40AM -0500, John Moyer wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 278-4
> > Severity: normal
> > * What led up to the situation?
> > ls -al /etc/ssl/certs
> > start xterm on local host. ssh to remote host running Wheezy. ls
> > There is no problem if I do this on local host, so maybe ther problem is
> > some combination of ssh and xterm. strace on ssh shows it is in read().
> > ls -al /etc/ssl/certs | cat -v
> > behaves as expected.
> >
> > /etc/ssl/certs/T*Sertifika* is the file name that causes problems. There is no
> > problem with the Xfce desktop terminal except that the filename does not
> > display correctly.
> >
> > 00000000 2f 65 74 63 2f 73 73 6c 2f 63 65 72 74 73 2f 54 /etc/ssl/certs/T
> > 00000010 c3 9c 42 c4 b0 54 41 4b 5f 55 45 4b 41 45 5f 4b ..B..TAK_UEKAE_K
> > 00000020 c3 b6 6b 5f 53 65 72 74 69 66 69 6b 61 5f 48 69 ..k_Sertifika_Hi
> > 00000030 7a 6d 65 74 5f 53 61 c4 9f 6c 61 79 c4 b1 63 c4 zmet_Sa..lay..c.
> > 00000040 b1 73 c4 b1 5f 2d 5f 53 c3 bc 72 c3 bc 6d 5f 33 .s.._-_S..r..m_3
> > 00000050 2e 70 65 6d 0a .pem.
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 104 May 17 19:11 T##B##TAK_UEKAE_K##k_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa##lay##c##s##_-_S##r##m_3.pem -> /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/T##B##TAK_UEKAE_K##k_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa##lay##c##s##_-_S##r##m_3.crt
>
> The string is encoded with UTF-8, but according to the summary, your
> locale is C (POSIX). The 9f begins a string which is not terminated
> (see ctlseqs.ms):
>
> ESC _
> Application Program Command (APC is 0x9f).
>
> Also see the discussion of brokenStringTerm in the manpage.
>
> (This is not a bug in xterm, by the way).
>
> > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
> http://invisible-island.net
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Thank you for your reply.
Should I will try setting brokenStringTerm to true in an X resources file.
Should I use a different locale?
Is this a bug in ssh? Was it ssh that was stopping?
Is this a Mozilla bug, using an improper file name?
Should I report this bug elsewhere?
Thanks again.
John
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