Bug#343389: x11-common: missing /etc/X11/rgb.txt file

[Ben Bogart <bbogart@ryerson.ca>]

Hi David,

Indeed that command does not create an rgb.txt in /usr/X11/ I've temporarily solved this issue by copying the rgb.txt from the Xorg sources. 

Thanks,
B. Bogart

----- Original Message -----
From: David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:53 pm
Subject: Re: Bug#343389: x11-common: missing /etc/X11/rgb.txt file

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:41:36PM -0500, B. Bogart wrote:
> > Package: x11-common
> > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > After upgrading from xfree86 to xorg (sarge w/ unstable packages) 
> my tcl/tk
> > applications stopped working. It was complaining about X11 colour 
> names,> so I checked and indeed my system has no /etc/X11/rgb.txt 
> file, though
> > 
> > dpkg -L x11-common 
> > 
> > does list it, and the debian package search also
> > lists it. I did not remove it myself, so it must have been 
> something in
> > the flurry of installing new unstable packages. 
> > 
> > apt-get install --reinstall x11-common 
> > 
> > does not create the file. 
> > There does remain a broken symlink to this file:
> > 
> > % file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt: broken symbolic link to 
> `/etc/X11/rgb.txt'
> Could you try doing "apt-get install --reinstall --fix-missing x11-
> common"?
> - David Nusinow
>