Michel Daenzer writes:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:57 +0200, giacomo boffi wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-core
> > Version: 2:1.1.1-7
> > Severity: normal
>
> > in my debian, the X colour db is installed by x11-common, in two places,
> > the traditional one, /etx/X11, and the new standard, /usr/share/X11
>
> > i'm used to increment the colour db with italian names and other things
> > and until recently (less than a week) all worked as intended
>
> > now X does not recognize anymore these "italian colours", afaict
> > (i strace'd Xorg binary) because it's unable to find rgb.txt
>
> This is usually caused by an incorrect RgbPath directive in xorg.conf.
> If that's not the case for you, please provide that file as well as the
> corresponding Xorg.0.log.
i'm going to forward to you all the relevant output from a shell
session as follows
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boffi95:~# whoami
root
boffi95:~# strace -o X.strace /usr/bin/X > X.out 2> X.err & sleep 10
[1] 13535
boffi95:~# xsetroot -display :0 -solid deepblue
xsetroot: unknown color "deepblue"
boffi95:~# grep -i rgbpath /etc/X11/xorg.conf
boffi95:~# grep deepblue$ /etc/X11/rgb.txt
44 44 178 deepblue
boffi95:~# kill %1
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thank you
gb
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ATTACHMENTS:
1) the file X.strace.bz2
Attachment:
X.strace.bz2
Description: Binary data
2) the stdout of X
Attachment:
X.out
Description: Binary data
3) the stderr of X
Attachment:
X.err
Description: Binary data
4) /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Attachment:
xorg.conf
Description: Binary data
5) /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Attachment:
Xorg.0.log
Description: Binary data