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Bug#916349: xterm: X error (BadLength) with GNU screen



On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:11:28PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 338-1
> > Severity: grave

make it normal (and read the guidelines...)

> 1281  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 5
> 1281  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 5

Which Debian package provides this font?

I need that information, plus the details of the missing glyph to reproduce
this issue.
 
> I haven't run into anything like this, of course, but with the font
> information and a (script) typescript to see what's sent to the screen,
> can probably see what's breaking.
> 
> I could add a feature to tell xterm to not exit on (certain) errors
> if it's not actually an xterm bug.  Seems it's not:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wmii/i92CyORGZQ0
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=1498269
> https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu/issues/88

I had noticed this one, but didn't stumble onto one of the problematic
fonts when testing for missing glyphs:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58706

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