Bug#364689: Warning: Color name "white" is not defined

[James Aspnes <aspnes@cs.yale.edu>]

Package: xterm
Version: 210-3
Severity: important

Upon spawning xterm, it emits the error messages

Warning: Color name "white" is not defined
Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

and puts up an all-black window.  It looks like it can't find
/etc/X11/rgb.txt.  Running as

xterm -fg "#000000" -bg "#ffffff"

works just fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9.emp5
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1                2.3.2-5.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.0-3  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1.1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                        1:1.0.0-4  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.0-6  X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                       1:1.0.1-5  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.0-4  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.8.2-6  FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                       1:1.0.1-3  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.0-4  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                      1.0.1-2    Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                        1:7.0.0-3  X Window System utility programs

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