Re: Please help

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:44:15PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I am having problem with xorg in sid, it keeps saying
> trc@hpd:~$ emacs21
> Undefined color: "black"
> trc@hpd:~$
> the same occurs with qiv
> trc@hpd:~$ qiv -m -f fotos/cayos/*jpg
> qiv: can't parse color 'black'
> trc@hpd:~$
> and xterm has become unusable. It is bad enough for me not having emacs,
> have tried several things, but nothing seems to work. There was a thread
> a few days ago in debian users that died without solution, I started
> another one, but so far no solution is seen.
> Last thread (which mentions the thread of the 25-oct-2005 in debian, and
> another one in gnu.org whose solution doesn't help here) begins here
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00098.html
> If you can help me or give me some clues will be great.

>From the looks of your debian-user thread you are missing your rgb.txt file
that's supposed to be in /etc/X11. This file is shipped in the x11-common
package. You may want to be sure you've got this package, and that this
file is where it should be.

 - David Nusinow