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Bug #77

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xterm won't start

Added by Hammel almost 14 years ago. Updated over 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Urgent
Assignee:
Hammel
Category:
root file system
Target version:
0.09.0 - BUI Integration
Start date:
28 Feb 2011
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Severity:
Medium

Description

xterm won't start - error message: Cannot perform malloc

I have no idea what what causes this at this point.

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Updated by Hammel over 13 years ago

I've tried some patches from the Buildroot commits but they didn't get xterm to start. Out of frustration I looked to see if I could find another terminal program. The rxvt project is still in active development. It has few dependencies and is very lightweight. I did a test build on my build box and it went fine. So I created a Buildroot package for it based on the xterm package. Oddly enough, it built the first time I tried it. I changed the call to xterm in the xinitrc in the rootfs to rxvt and booted the rootfs. It also worked the first time.

I now have a terminal working under BeagleBox. I can close this issue since I can just drop the use of xterm.

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