Re: rxvt won't start

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

[Resending due to typo in original headers]

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

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