Bug#220964: xdm: can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" because it's not on board

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

Package: xdm
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: important

I found a simple reproducible way to crash one's X session.
# apt-get install multimon #a vastly undocumented program
$ multimon
then click the button to close the window created.
[As what else does one do when there is no way to find out
how to use the program.]
Poof, even icewm is gone; one is back at the login prompt.
$ tail /var/log/xdm.log.1
Sun Nov 16 01:27:42 2003 xdm error (pid 1011): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" (err 2)
Sun Nov 16 01:27:44 2003 xdm info (pid 548): starting X server on :0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux jidanni.org 2.4.21-4-k7 #1 Sun Aug 3 02:34:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp-3.2                       1:3.2.3-8  The GNU C preprocessor
ii  debconf                       1.3.15     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam0g                      0.76-14    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libxaw7                       4.2.1-12.1 X Athena widget set library
ii  xbase-clients                 4.2.1-12.1 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
  xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm
  xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false