Bug 140598 – xterm having colour problems

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Paul Oldham 2006-07-15 23:56:19 UTC]

Last night I upgraded to modular X and ran into the problem described in
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138764 so re-compiled xterm. Now it can't set colours.

Just invoking 'xterm' without any arguments you get:

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$ xterm
Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
xterm: Cannot allocate color green
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and the xterm window created appears with black text on white. Any any attempts to use the -bg switch don't work either. For example:

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xterm -bg blue 
Warning: Color name "blue" is not defined
Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
xterm: Cannot allocate color green
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emerge --info output as follows:

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
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:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cli crypt cups dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_mga video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-16 00:17:44 UTC]

Remove RgbPath from xorg.conf.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml