Runtime electric-fence did not help. I can also reproduce this if I - ssh -X to cyberia - start an xterm
So I don't think it has anything to do with ssh (should be transparent), and xterm has a problem even if ssh was doing sth funky. I'm including a strace of the xterm. I'm not sure how to debug this much more; I can install the x-dbg package, but I guess it won't help unless I can avert the stack smash.
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