pterm crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDefault()

[Renardo]

Due to the problems with putty under XWayward (see bug 1720905) I logged off and chose XOrg for my new session. First thing after entering my password was the pterm crash. (Afterwards, I was able to launch putty successfully, which was not possible under Xwayward.)

I checked $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in a Shell, and it was set to X11, not Xwayward.

After I had entered my password for the bug report pterm was relaunched with a root shell. This, however, seems acceptable since my account has sudo rights.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: pterm 0.70-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 23 12:22:12 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pterm
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-30 (297 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcCmdline: pterm
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=eo.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: putty
StacktraceTop:
 XGetDefault () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ()
 ()
 ()
 ()
Title: pterm crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDefault()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-20 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 XGetDefault (dpy=0x55b51fab7100, prog=<optimized out>, name=0x55b51dad1163 "HostName") at ../../src/GetDflt.c:218
 ?? ()
 get_setting (key=key@entry=0x55b51dad1163 "HostName") at unix/uxstore.c:347
 read_setting_s (handle=<optimized out>, key=key@entry=0x55b51dad1163 "HostName") at unix/uxstore.c:401
 gpps_raw (handle=<optimized out>, name=0x55b51dad1163 "HostName", def=0x55b51dad5550 "") at settings.c:105

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.