Re: rxvt won't start
On Sunday 07 May 2006 12:02 pm, Russ Cook wrote:
> Russ Cook wrote:
> > Gnu-Raiz wrote:
> >> On Friday 28 April 2006 15:48, Russ Cook wrote:
> >>> Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> >>>> Russ Cook <russcook@mbo.net> writes:
> >>>>> I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and
> >>>>> get this message:
> >>>>> rxvt: can't load color "Black"
> >>>>> rxvt: can't load color "Black"
> >>>>> rxvt: aborting
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Has anyone seen this problem, and can you tell me what I
> >>>>> should check?
> >>>>
> >>>> You may have managed to hit http://bugs.debian.org/343389 . Try
> >>>> reinstalling the x11-common package with dpkg
> >>>> --force-confmiss:
> >>>>
> >>>> dpkg -i --force-confmiss
> >>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_*.deb
> >>>
> >>> Aaron,
> >>> Thank you for the reply. I did as you suggested, but the error
> >>> remains the same.
> >>> Thanks though!
> >>
> >> Is their any special reason your using rxvt? You can make the changes
> >> to x-term to make it look exactly like rxvt!
> >> Example code:
> >>
> >> xterm -sb -sl 200 -leftbar -fg black -bg white &
> >>
> >> I do agree that if rxvt does not work right maybe you should file a
> >> bug report. If I remember correctly rxvt is a subset to xterm, and
> >> might not have implemented everything yet.
> >>
> >> Gnu_Raiz
> >
> > Gnu_Raiz,
> > Thank you for your reply. Below is what the system tells me when I
> > executed the command
> > string you suggested, from within a Konsole window. It appears I have
> > a configuration problem of some sort.
> >
> > russ@Archimedes:~$ xterm -sb -sl 200 -leftbar -fg black -bg white &
> > [1] 7723
> > russ@Archimedes:~$ Warning: Color name "white" is not defined
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> > Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
> > xterm: Cannot allocate color green
> > xterm: Cannot allocate color red
> >
> > [1]+ Done xterm -sb -sl 200 -leftbar -fg black -bg
> > white
>
> After a recent 'apt-get upgrade' with no change to my sources.list file,
> rxvt now works. I have no idea what has changed, but I'm now a 'happy
> camper'.
Sorry for the late response, but I've been out of town & have gotten way
behind on this list.
IIRC I had similar problem on an I386 system a month or two ago which turned
out to have a simple answer. The file /etc/X11/rgb.txt had gone missing.
Reinstalling x11-common did not solve the problem, but copying the file over
from another system did.
Cheers!
cmr
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