Re: cannot load color "black"
Thx for your experience.
I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence:
> an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term
You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system?
I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects..
Cheers,
Deephay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Digby Tarvin" <digbyt@acm.org>
To: "debian_user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: cannot load color "black"
> Interesting,
>
> I have seen the same thing a couple of times recently - and
> my configuration is unusual enough that it may narrow down
> the cause a bit..
>
> 1. I am using a NCD X-Terminal on a local lan as my terminal server,
> so I know that the problem has nothing to do with the xorg
> server.
>
> 2. The screen/window manager is xdm/fvwm served by a BSD system,
> which also serves the fonts, and has been running 24/7 for about
> 9 years. So it is not KDE or KDM.
>
> 3. The problem has only happened since I installed Sarge on a
> notebook and started running applications from it on my NCD,
> so I believe it is something in Debian, and evidently not
> restricted to a single release, since you are using etch.
>
> I had assumed that it was a problem with an application that
> wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term, and suspected
> mozilla and openoffice.
>
> Once it starts, it effects all applications, even ones running on
> different computers - so it appears to be some sort of resource
> problem caused on the server. Usually logging out completely and
> then logging back into my X session resolves the problem.
>
> Thats all I have at the moment. Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> Some of my applications like xscreensaver (also rxvt and other apps)
>> will return some information like: "Cannot parse color black" or "Cannot
>> load color black".
>> some of them (like xscreensaver) only returns the message but still
>> running correctly and some of them (like rxvt) cannot be executed anymore.
>> Is this a problem with the xorg server or some libs? thx!
>> I am using etch.
>>
>> Deephay
>>
>>
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