Re: Hosed KDE

[Bob Underwood <mgkrebs1@home.com>]

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:00, Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2001 03:12 pm, Bob Underwood wrote:
> > there is a but in this package. take a look at had the same problem last
> > evening.  take a look at
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg00004.html
> >  from 6 Oct, 01.
>
> This worked. I'm up and running now (almost!). One last bit of weirdness.
> The color map is fried somehow. When I run Eterm I get:
>
> Eterm:  Warning:  Unable to resolve "white" as a color name.  This should
> never fail.  Please repair/restore your RGB database.
>
> I found on the web a program "rgb" that is supposed to create the rgb.dir
> file and it's not present on my system and I can't find it in any distro.
>
> There is an rgb.txt file in /etc/X11.

I just did a quick check of my system and have at least four permutations of 
this file:  identical copies in /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; another 
installed by StarOffice and yet another installed by latex2html.  the ones in 
/etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 are installed by xfree86-common per the 
debian package search page.

perhaps reinstall xfree86-common?

hope this helps

bob