urxvt crashes

( Marc A. Lehmann ) pcg at goof.com
Tue Jan 11 18:07:00 CET 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:38:35PM +0200, Pertti Johanson <pertti.johanson at mail.ee> wrote:
>    Just tried to swap from xterm to urxvt, and though I really liked
> it, transparency and nice fonts and all, it seems to crash
> when I try to fire up some ncurses programs like mc or giftcurs
> for example.

Which version do you use?

>    Any ideas what might cause it, or where to look for errors?

Yes, first make a backtrace when it crashes, just start rxvt with gdb:

   gdb /path/to/rxvt
   (gdb) r
   ... wait till it crashes
   (gdb) bt
   ... send this output

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