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

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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Carl Fink carl@xxxxxxx
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