Bug#721978: xterm: "ls -al /etc/ssl/certs" causes xterm to stop
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:30:03PM -0500, John Moyer wrote:
> 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().
>
> > 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
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
>
> 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?
>
I think that I am slowly beginning to understand.
On remote machine,
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
while on local machine,
LANG=C
If I run xterm on local machine as
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xterm
and then ssh to remote machine, in that case there is no problem.
Thanks again.
John
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