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Re: Terminal problems



Hello,
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Mike S wrote:
> Looking at the failsafe terminal output I keep getting the massage 
> xterm:  Cannot allocute color "whatever" sometimes green, somtimes 
> black, I think I have seen every color after this warning at one point 
> or another
> 
> I did dist-upgrade from stable, so maybe there is something crossing 
> between xfree86 and xorg?
> Like I said this is just blowing my min, and I am out of ideas, and 
> thankyou in advance for any help.

There was a recent bug report on this. I think the cause was that you
did not update *all* xfree packages to xorg. Check if you have any
xfree86 packages left and update them to their xorg counterpart. Do
you have any *color files in /etc/X11/app-defaults ?

Greetings

         Helge

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