Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:19:53 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:09:10 +0200
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:11:35 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:52:20 +0200
> > > Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

> > > > Do you have /etc/X11/rgb.txt and a symlink to it in /usr/share/X11/? Is
> > > > this file readable for normal users?
> > > 
> > > /etc/X11/rgb.txt is a real file not a symlink. /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
> > > is the symlink.
> > 
> > That is what I meant; maybe I did not make myself clear.
> 
> Not sure. "I" read it the other way around. That's why I pointed out
> both things just to be safe. :-)
> 
> > > 
> > > ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 17371 2006-01-14 17:27 /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> > 
> > $ ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2004-04-28 20:19 /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> > 
> > Seems like it is the same file on your system. Just to be sure, check if
> > it actually contains a definition for "black":
> > 
> > $ grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> >   0   0   0             black
> 
>  grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt
>   0   0   0             black
>  
> > > ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-03 07:21 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -> /etc/X11/rgb.txt
> > > 
> > > In this situation;
> > > 
> > > emacs
> > > Undefined color: "black"
> > > 
> > > Not working
> > 
> > Maybe your xorg.conf still points to the old location at
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. You can check this with "grep -i rgb
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf". If that comes up empty you could try to explicitly
> > specify the correct RGBPath yourself; see "man xorg.conf".

[...]

> grep -i rgb  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         RgbPath         "/etc/X11/rgb.txt"

I think X on Debian adds ".txt" automatically to the RGBPath nowadays;
so in your case the X server might look for "/etc/X11/rgb.txt.txt". Try
to remove the ".txt" part (or comment out the entire line) and restart
Xorg. If that does not help it is probably time to run

egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and look for warnings and errors related to rgb.txt.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian