Bug#448133: /usr/bin/gdmthemetester is broken

[carlos]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.16.4-1
Severity: normal


The script /usr/bin/gdmthemetester always fails with the following error:

GDM Theme Tester

Be sure to test all the environments:
 console, console-timed, flexi, remote-flexi, xdmcp
Also be sure to test using caps lock

ERROR: Xnest not found


Editing /usr/bin/gdmthemetester one sees the following three lines:

XNEST=`gdmwhich Xnest`
GDMXNEST=`gdmwhich gdmXnest`
GDMGREETER="/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter"


Looking for the binary gdmwhich in debian etch (using for instance the webpage
interface) one sees that it does not exist, hence XNEST is always empty
making the script fail later on.

So I tried setting an alias:

alias gdmwhich=which

    This fails also because there is no Xnest binary anywhere.
Looking for a xnest binary in debian etch I find one in the package
xnest but that package is not a dependency of gdm, shouldn't it be?
    Also there does not seem to be any gdmXnest binary in debian etch.
So even if the previous things get fixed there is still a problem with
gdmthemetester. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                   2.0.0-1           graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session          2.14.3-5          The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  icewm [x-window-manage 1.2.28-4          wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.12.4-3          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1               2.4.32-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.2.4-4           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdmx1                1:1.0.2-2         X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1         2.4.2-1.2         generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.0-4         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.12.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.14.0-2          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.20-7          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules         0.79-4            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         0.79-4            Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               0.79-4            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.14.8-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2             2.14.4-3          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common        2.14.4-3          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1            1.32-3            SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0               7.6.dbs-13        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.7-4           X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.0.1-2         X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.1-5         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 1:1.0.1-4         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.1-4.1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.27.dfsg-1     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.1.0.2-5       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.1-3         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-man 1:2.14.5-4        A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-termin 7.9-2             RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii  xbase-clients          1:7.1.ds1-2       miscellaneous X clients

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  gdm-themes                    0.5.1      Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                      0.52.2-10  Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                        2.14.3-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm