After emerging xorg-x11-6.8.1.902 some applications give warnings and errors like: $ emacs Undefined color: "black" $ xterm Warning: Color name "black" is not defined $ xfontsel Warning: Color name "black" is not defined When using xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 this does not occur. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Forum topic: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=281067
In the forum topic StinkingMonkey pointed me to the solution: check this line of xorg.conf RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib64/X11/rgb" make sure its pointing to the rgb.txt file , dont add .txt to the line, im using amd64 so yours may differ... Now it works again.
Please reopen. I'm seeing the issues as well. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've set: RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" This file exists: [10:18:07 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 10. Mai 10:07 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt [10:29:58 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ epm -qf /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt rgb-1.0.0 But when I start xterm, I get: [10:18:48 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ xterm Warning: Color name "black" is not defined xterm: Cannot allocate color red xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta xterm: Cannot allocate color cyan xterm: Cannot allocate color green xterm: Cannot allocate color green3 One (maybe) important note is, that I ALWAYS use VNC (namely the net-misc/vnc-4.0-r1 server) to connect to the system. Client is RealVNC 4.1.1 on Windows XP. Does vnc use xorg.conf at all?
OK reopened.
(In reply to comment #3) > Please reopen. > > I'm seeing the issues as well. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've set: > > RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" > Which version of X are you running? If you're on modular (it looks like you are by that path) drop the RgbPath entirely.
(In reply to comment #5) > Which version of X are you running? modular x. > If you're on modular (it looks like you > are by that path) drop the RgbPath entirely. Actually, I sort of dropped that setting in the beginning. As I wrote, I use VNC and I actually had no /etc/X11/xorg.conf at all. Although I don't think it'll make any difference at all, I'll now remove that setting in the dummy (?) xorg.conf file and report back. BTW: According to the German user list, other people see this problem as well, even without vnc. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german/26287/focus=26287 which is the thread Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > If you're on modular (it looks like you > > are by that path) drop the RgbPath entirely. > > Actually, I sort of dropped that setting in the beginning. As I wrote, I use > VNC and I actually had no /etc/X11/xorg.conf at all. > > Although I don't think it'll make any difference at all, I'll now remove that > setting in the dummy (?) xorg.conf file and report back. It made no difference. I changed the xorg.conf and restarted the VNC server. I still get the error messages. [09:35:42 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ grep -v '^ *#' /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -v '^$' Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSection Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes Option "standby time" "20" Option "suspend time" "30" Option "off time" "60" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseMan" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Mode "640x480" DotClock 25.175 HTimings 640 664 760 800 VTimings 480 491 493 525 EndMode EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA" Driver "vga" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "any supported Trident chip" Driver "trident" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "MGA Millennium I" Driver "mga" Option "hw cursor" "off" BusID "PCI:0:10:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "MGA G200 AGP" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "pci retry" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 8 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen MGA1" Device "MGA Millennium I" Monitor "Generic Monitor" Option "no accel" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" Option "rgb bits" "8" Visual "StaticColor" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen MGA2" Device "MGA G200 AGP" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 8 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" Option "rgb bits" "8" Visual "StaticColor" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Main Layout" Screen "Screen MGA 1" "" "" "" "Screen MGA 2" Screen "Screen MGA 2" "" "" "Screen MGA 1" "" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "another layout" Screen "Screen 1" Screen "Screen MGA 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "simple layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Any ideas? I've got these errors now on 2 systems. And I'm not alone, other people also suffer from this bug. On the User list, somebody suggested to setup a symlink from /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt -> /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt; see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/160591 - but this doesn't work for me. What has been changed, which caused systems to break? Could this please be reverted?
Same prob here tester ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1_rc1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.15.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.1 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.92 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://mirror.datapipe.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2 " PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/include/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apache2 async avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo chroot cli cpdflib crypt cups dba dillo divx4linux doc dri eds emboss encode fbdev foomaticdb fpx freetype gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww live lynxkeymap lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mmxext mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pango pcre pdflib perl php player png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts vim vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS thiengs Ive tried (from thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443193-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html Same problem here. Things Ive tried since changing to xorg-7 and getting this prob. In CL, consoles, ALT-F1 and such run fine. INFO Portage 2.1_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.15.1 i686) CFLAGS= "-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe " 1 different kernel 2 removeing nvidia-kernel 3 removing .Xdefaaults - 3A. Many edits of .Xdefaults includeing coping tvw/Xterm-color into Xdefaults and then wacking on it some. 4 Changineg Bg/Fg from Black/white to white/black 5 re-emerge ncurses and xterm 6 umpteen checks that " RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" " is real and in xorg.conf. Any ncurses based prog like "mc" or kernel "make menuconfig" when run in xterm, becaome white screens with no decrenable text. I normally run with black background and white text. vim does give me one color a mudy maude for keywords and white text for the rest
I tried down gradeing to xterm-207,no joy. I was at xterm-212-r2. I emerged rxvt-2.7.10-r3 and it works fine.
I'm using tightvnc and it looks like the location of rgb.txt is important I found http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=90751&page=2 and added the symlinks one by one until it got fixed - cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ln -s /usr/X11R6/share/X11/rgb.txt fixed it for me on amd64 xorg-x11-7.0-r1 accessed via tightvnc Now emacs starts fine and does not complain about black...
Alright, so this looks like the VNC servers are pointing to old rgb paths, then. Which servers are everyone using?
I'm using net-misc/vnc-4.0-r1 - the symlink "trick" # ln -vs /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt now works for me as well, despite what I wrote in comment #8. When the file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt does not exist, I get the errors.
This isn't really an x11@ bug, it should go to maintainers of the VNC servers.
If you're using tightVNC, there is an easy fix. The cause of the error is that the path to rgb.txt is hardcoded in the source, but there's no need to recompile. You can simply modify the 'vncserver' script, it has a setting "$colorPath" which can override the hardcoded value. Just uncomment the "$colorPath = ..." line in the 'vncserver' script, and make it point to the correct location of rgb.txt, without the ".txt" (probably "/usr/share/X11/rgb").
*** Bug 132358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 143525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Sorry for the dup, I searched for "vnc rgb.txt" but not rgbpath :-( Would a patch that does comment #15 in the ebuild be accepted? I'm worried that it would break things in a similar way for anyone still using xorg < 7. The only safe thing I can think it to make vnc and tightvnc dep on Xorg >= 7 (or maybe >=6.9 if 6.9 uses the new rgbpath too). Is that a good idea?
Created attachment 94008 [details, diff] new-rgbpath.patch If excepted, should probably be incorporated into tightvnc-1.3_alpha7-gentoo.diff
I think this is fixed with vnc-4.1.2. Try it.
Indeed vnc is fixed with vnc-4.1.2. Tightvnc still has the problem. There is a new devel version 3.8 available on their website but the changelog doesn't indicate that they've fixed the problem.
Well, in the case of tightvnc is something different. Tightvnc is supposed to work with X.org 6.3 and nothing else. You can't change the default paths without patching the source code. The vnc(4.1.2) package can do that through the configure script of the Xserver we want to use. Tightvnc ships a pre-configured and minimal Xserver, whilst vnc has to configure and compile a Xserver like if it was a real X server. With both of the packages you need fonts and rgb installed in your system. And in the case of tightvnc, you need to patch the vncserver script, adding both the correct fontPath and rgbPath. Btw, i'm reassigning bug to maintainer-needed since the x11 team has nothing to do with this bug. And changing the name also, because vnc does not have this bug.
Fixed on cvs, tightvnc-1.2.9-r3.
