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> When starting xterm with no locale environment variable set, it fails
> to start.  If you're quick enough, you can read a message along the
> lines of "Cannot allocate pty: No such file ..."
>   
Just a hint for debugging start problems with xterm: it has an option 
-hold in which case it doesn't terminate if the application terminates.
Don't know, though, if this helps if there is an error during its own 
initialisation.

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