xterm segfault on tgetent() from /lib64/libtermcap.so.2

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

On a RHEL 4 system the xterm window disappears right after initiation.
For this reason we checked in /var/log/messages and saw a segfault.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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