After upgrading to modular X according to instructions given in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml, everything seems to work fine except root-tail that now complains: can't parse white Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (JISX0208.1983-0) Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (JISX0208.1983-0) can't parse yellow can't parse cyan can't parse grey can't parse black Thanks, Xavier The output of emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre6-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/modules /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi acpi4linux alsa ansi apache2 asf auctex audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 bzlib caps cdr cdrom cjk codecs crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dbus devfs26 dga dhcp divx4linux djbfft doc dri dts dv dvd dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif faad fam ffmpeg firefox flac gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack-tmpfs java jikes john jpeg lcms ldap leim libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls lzo lzw mad maildir makecheck matroska mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozplaintext mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer mule ncurses network nls nntp no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nocd nomalloccheck nomultilib noplugin nosendmail nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic png pop preview-latex qt quicktime readline real rtc sdl sftplogging slp sockets spell sse sse2 ssl stream svga tcpd tetex theora threads transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vorbis wifi win32codecs xml2 xmms xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_synaptics input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_i810 video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I changed the bug title since it is not only root-tail, but multiple programs like gv, xscreensaver... that have problem with colors missing and thus appear only black and white
OK, so I solved this. The rgb.txt file was missing. Just copying it from another machine and restarting X, solve the problem. Still, there is bug somewhere so it was deleted in the first place
It seems like rgb.txt got moved from /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt in modular-X, and root-tail needs to be updated to point to the new path. See 129746
-No maintainer -"dead" upstream - no release since 2004 -apparently missed the modular X milestone. -Even after copying rgb.txt to the 'old' location in comment #3 still get the following: "Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (ISO8859-1) unable to create fontset for font '12x24', exiting." -http://cvs.schmorp.de/root-tail/ - root-tail's CVS module == dead! Please vote, +1 here (naturally) (Removing retired dev from CC field)
Pending removal: 12 Nov 2008 I vote against :) I just emerged the package on a random desktop and it works fine. Running: $> root-tail -f -g 438x90+842+0 --interval 0.5 -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-10 /etc/gentoo-release,yellow1 works fine for me. emerge --info shows: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-rc4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.26-rc4 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:04:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_US en_GB nl" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="a52 acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en_GB nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga nvidia vesa vga i810" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I vote to keep the package. root-tail works fine for me and has never shown any odd behavior as long as I can remember using it.
huh, 2 reports of it working...I guess I will try again to see why it didn't work for me.
has been working fine for years. in xfce i use root-tail -g 1100x700+55+5 --wordwrap -id `xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | cut -d' ' -f5` --justify /var/log/critical/current,yellow /var/log/acpid,green,'ACPI' /var/log/emerge.log,blue,'EMERGE' /var/log/everything/current,red,'MESSAGES' & in fluxbox it works without the -id option and since i dont know any real alternative, i'd rather keep that packet in the tree.
(In reply to comment #8) > has been working fine for years. in xfce i use > root-tail -g 1100x700+55+5 --wordwrap -id `xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | > cut -d' ' -f5` --justify /var/log/critical/current,yellow > /var/log/acpid,green,'ACPI' /var/log/emerge.log,blue,'EMERGE' > /var/log/everything/current,red,'MESSAGES' & > > in fluxbox it works without the -id option > > and since i dont know any real alternative, i'd rather keep that packet in the > tree. > Hey, what do you know. I finally got this app working. Cool app too. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050124-newsletter.xml <- how I got it to work for me. Since I didn't do anything special to make this work...I am going to unmask it without any modifications to the ebuild. thanks for input all!
