Bug 131998

Summary: xterm freezes when using the efont UTF font
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Lenz Grimmer <lgrimmer>
Component: X11 ApplicationsAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: Other   
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Description Lenz Grimmer 2005-11-02 13:15:17 UTC 
This was actually found by a colleague of mine, but he asked me to file the report - "xterm" hangs (never actually opens a window) when trying to start it using the "efont-unicode" bitmap font.

How to repeat:

Run 'strace xterm -font "-efont-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"'

Notice it loops with the following error:

shmdt(0x454dc000)                       = 0
write(3, ".\0\2\0\236\0`\4-\0\f\0\237\0`\4$\0-F-efont-fixed"..., 68) = 68
read(3, 0xbff118c4, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
read(3, "\1b\213\0010\0\0\0\377\377\377\377\5\0\0\0\372\377\0\000"..., 32) = 32
read(3, "\2\0\0\0\220\342\260\10\0\0\377\0 \0\23\0\0\0\377\0\10"..., 40) = 40
read(3, "=\0\0\0\202\1\0\0\334\0\0\0\203\1\0\0@\0\0\0\363\0\0\0"..., 152) = 152
shmat(335970308, 0, SHM_RDONLY)         = 0x454dc000
write(3, "-\0\20\0\240\0`\0044\0\f\0-Efont-Fixed-bold-I-"..., 76) = 76
read(3, 0xbff118c4, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-02 13:31:27 UTC 
Lenz. could you add "-s 128" to strace and attach also the output of xlsfonts? Thanks.
Comment 2 Michael Gross 2005-11-08 15:08:25 UTC 
Closing this. If the requested information can be provided, please reopen it.