screen crashes in F17 alpha/beta

[Brian Johnson]

Thanks Michal,

What's odd, though, and makes it seem unlikely it's a disk issue is, this
is happening on 2 different machines -- a brand new laptop that had F16
(where screen was working) on it before the clean install of F17 alpha and
another machine where screen was working without a problem with F16, but
then the first time I tried running 'xterm -e screen' after updating to
F17, it crashed. That's my home computer, so I don't know if it's the same
message I got on my laptop, but can look at home.

I'll check /var/log/messages, dmesg, and do an strace as you recommended
though.

Brian

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
> >
> > So, here's what is flashing:
> >
> > manpath: warning: $MANPATH set, ignoring /etc/man_db.conf
> > free(207da4d) bad block. (memtop = 0x21bd000 membot = 0x2074000)
>
> Why that may affect 'screen' I have no idea.  Does not seem to be a
> likely cause but I cannot really tell.  OTOH the above _may_ mean
> that your disk is acting up (and possibly swap is affected).  If that
> is really the case then you should get quite a lot to read in
> /var/log/messages and in dmesg output.
>
> If this is not the case  then running
>
>   strace -o /tmp/screen.trace screen
>
> and looking at results may give you some clues (but you have to
> be careful how you read that and pay attention to a context).
>
>    Michal
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