On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:20:33PM -0700, Jeff Bowden wrote: > >>$ xterm -sb > >>xterm: bad command line option "-sb" > >> > >>usage: xterm [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] > >>[] [] > >> [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [-C] [-Sccn] > >> > >> > > > >I haven't seen this one before. Can you get this behavior from the > >command-line? Looks like something's trashed memory (on startup, xterm > >constructs the sorted help-message, but that's independent of the > >resource computation - but the help-message is trashed). > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean. That *is* the behaviour I get from the > command line.
long day (I focused on the window manager but overlooked the command-line).
> I ran strace on it in both the broken and working configurations. They
> diverge at the point where the working configuration looks at a bunch of
> locale files and the broken one doesn't.
What locale (environment) settings are you using? Normally I'd expect
locale to be where something breaks.
> Let me know if there's any specific tests you want me to run.
If I were debugging it, I'd configure it with the traces
configure --enable-trace
That might replicate the problem, or it might not, depending on whether this
is a build issue. Without that - running it w/o setuid should let you
run ltrace on it. There's one call to qsort (in the non-trace version).
All of those "[]" look like it's either run past the null on the end of
the table, or else it's picking up some non-printable text from somewhere.
(I wrote that a couple of years ago, so I thought it was fairly stable).
So an ltrace might show some clue of that - I think it's the simplest
thing to do.
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