Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

[Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:36:52AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> Try to reinstall the x11-common package, maybe even purge it first and
> reinstall it. I have the suspicion that the rest of your problems are
> caused by your missing /etc/X11/Xsession, and maybe other files in
> /etc/X11.

I actually did that before reading your message.  I used 
"dpkg -i --force-confmiss" because uninstalling x11-common would require
removing every single X program.  Unfortunately, I still have problems with
xterm.  For instance, colors don't work right.  I get messages like "xterm:
cannot allocate color gray50".  I tried rxvt, but it says 'rxvt: can't load
color "Black"' and fails to load.

I suspected that a missing rgb.txt was the problem there, but even now that
it exists, rxvt and xterm misbehave.
 
> You could use 
> 
> dpkg -S X11 | grep /etc/X11/ | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sed 's/, /\n/g' | sort -u | dpkg -l $(cat) | grep ^ii | cut -d " " -f 3
> 
> to get a list of all installed packages which are supposed to have files
> in /ect/X11/. Maybe you need to reinstall more of them to restore
> everything to normal.

I may have to try that.
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