Bug#458301: xbase-clients: /usr/bin/xrdb is missing
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.2.ds2-2
Severity: normal
Did an 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade' followed by a reboot to examine a piece of hardware. Upon logging in to a gnome session I received an error 'xrdb command not found; X resource not merged.'. Looked at local filesystem and xrdb was indeed missing. Version 7.2.ds2-2 of xbase-clients was installed. 'dpkg -L xbase-clients | grep xrdb' came up with one xrdb related file, but it wasn't /usr/bin/xrdb. I manually installed the same version of xbase-clients using 'dpkg -i' and /usr/bin/xrdb is now installed.
I'm not sure what happened here, but am reporting it none the less. I see that xbase-clients_7.2.ds2-2_i386.deb does indeed contain xrdb and it is installed properly using dpkg. It's possible that there was an install problem when xbase-clients was last updated by aptitude. I don't know. This bug can probably be closed upon receipt. I just wanted to note the issue in case it becomes an issue on other systems.
Partial .xsession-errors included showing that xrdb was missing:
Xsession: warning: xrdb command not found; X resources not merged.
** (process:3643): WARNING **: can't lock memory: Cannot allocate memory
WARNING: not using secure memory for passwords
SESSION_MANAGER=local/varroa:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3643
** (gnome-settings-daemon:3705): WARNING **: The system configuration changed - but we remain silent
** (gnome-settings-daemon:3705): WARNING **: Could not execute xrdb -nocpp -merge: Failed to execute child process "xrdb" (No such file or directory)
** (gnome-settings-daemon:3705): WARNING **: Could not execute xrdb -merge: Failed to execute child process "xrdb" (No such file or directory)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.2.1-6 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-4 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-2 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.4-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.1.2-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.2-1 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
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