Bug#192414: xlibs: All Xt apps fail with "Error: Couldn't find per display information"

[Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>]

Package: xlibs
Version: 4.2.1-6
Severity: important

Apologies if this is a dupe, there are so many bugs filed against xlibs,
and no search option. Also Apologies if it's simply me screwing up.

This system has some parts from unstable, but all relevant packages
should be from Testing.

I just noticed I could not use Acrobat Reader anymore. The error message
is from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. So I tried other Xt programs, and all
that talk to the display fail:

lupe@antalya:~$ appres 
Error: Couldn't find per display information
lupe@antalya:~$ editres
Error: Couldn't find per display information
lupe@antalya:~$ ghostview
Error: Couldn't find per display information
lupe@antalya:~$ listres
Error: Couldn't find per display information
lupe@antalya:~$ oclock
Error: Couldn't find per display information
lupe@antalya:~$ oclock
Error: Couldn't find per display information

But:

lupe@antalya:~$ bmtoa < /dev/null
bmtoa:  unable to read bitmap from file "(stdin)"

Programs that do not use libXt work OK.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux antalya 2.4.20-lpc.6.k7 #1 Sat Feb 22 13:53:48 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6                  2.1.4-2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  xfree86-common                4.2.1-6    X Window System (XFree86) infrastr