Bug#337221: xserver-xorg: undefined colors render important apps unusable
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:17:50PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:49:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > You *really* need to install x11-common, just like I told you the first
> > > time you asked us this question. I don't know why it wasn't installed for
> > > you, since it seems to have worked fine for everyone else. I assume that
> > > your libx11 wasn't upgraded either, since it depends on x11-common, but I
> > > have no idea why.
> >
> > No, xserver-xorg depends on xserver-common (>= 6.8.2.dfsg.1-*), which
> > depends on x11-common. The problem is probably that both xfree86-common and
> > x11-common own the /etc/X11/rgb.txt conffile. So, if the user purged
> > xfree86-common (which he shouldn't have done)... poof.
>
> This shouldn't matter. libx11-6 does depend on x11-common, and no version
> of x11-common exists in sarge. If he went whole-hog to sid, then he should
> have the xorg libx11-6.
>
> I'm guessing that he tried to upgrade during the broken x11-common period
> (which was totally my fault and caused by my hastiness to get 6.9/7.0
> ready). Upgrades to sid with the -10 packages should work just fine now I
> imagine, aside from the annoying repeat-debconf question bug that's more
> annoying than crippling. If he installs the x11-common now, it should fix
> this, but I'd like to get some confirmation before actually closing this
> bug.
>
> - David Nusinow
I am sorry for not answering earlier, had to go out for a while.
Unfortunately, installing, reinstalling several times the packages has
not fixed the problem. In my system, after several reinstallations, the
status is as follows:
trc@hpd:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg libx11-6 x11-common | grep Status
Status: install ok installed
Status: install ok installed
Status: install ok installed
trc@hpd:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg libx11-6 x11-common | grep Version
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10
Version 11", "X11", "X11R6", and "X11R6.8". The version of X used in
Debian
and yet
trc@hpd:~$ emacs21
Undefined color: "black"
trc@hpd:~$
which is driving me crazy, since I use emacs for almost everything.
Thank you guys for your help.
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