[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#642401: xmonad: Gvim crashes when started in terminal

[Anthony Campbell]

Package: xmonad
Version: 0.9.2-2+b2
Severity: normal

When I start gvim in a terminal it locks up and I get these messages:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
E852: The child process failed to start the GUI
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
> 
> [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has
> not been called
> 
> [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that. gvim: ../../src/xcb_io.c:273:
> poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

It happens with both xterm and rxvt-unicode. It does not happen with
other WMs (e.g. Iceweasel). It does not happen if I start gvim from
dmenu. I can work round it by aliasing gvim to gvim -f.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xmonad depends on:
ii  libc6         2.13-21       
ii  libffi5       3.0.10~rc10-3 
ii  libgmp10      2:5.0.2+dfsg-1
ii  libx11-6      2:1.4.4-1     
ii  libxext6      2:1.3.0-3     
ii  libxinerama1  2:1.1.1-3     
ii  x11-utils     7.6+3         

Versions of packages xmonad recommends:
ii  libghc-xmonad-dev  0.9.2-2+b2
ii  libghc-xmonad-doc  0.9.2-2   
ii  xfonts-base        1:1.0.3   

Versions of packages xmonad suggests:
ii  suckless-tools [dmenu]  38-1

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