(In reply to Marcus Meissner from comment #2) > currently cannot reproduce on my install. > > It might be related to the fonts you have, as it crashes in freetype2. > > as it is a free() issue, the memory was corrupted earlier. > > Could you try if it runs in valgrind to spot the point of memory corruption? I can confirm that using a font not selected from the FreeType library works fine, ie. 'XTerm*font: -xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1'.