Thx for your experience. I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence: > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system?
I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects.. Cheers, Deephay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Digby Tarvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian_user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: Re: cannot load color "black" > Interesting, > > I have seen the same thing a couple of times recently - and > my configuration is unusual enough that it may narrow down > the cause a bit.. > > 1. I am using a NCD X-Terminal on a local lan as my terminal server, > so I know that the problem has nothing to do with the xorg > server. > > 2. The screen/window manager is xdm/fvwm served by a BSD system, > which also serves the fonts, and has been running 24/7 for about > 9 years. So it is not KDE or KDM. > > 3. The problem has only happened since I installed Sarge on a > notebook and started running applications from it on my NCD, > so I believe it is something in Debian, and evidently not > restricted to a single release, since you are using etch. > > I had assumed that it was a problem with an application that > wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term, and suspected > mozilla and openoffice. > > Once it starts, it effects all applications, even ones running on > different computers - so it appears to be some sort of resource > problem caused on the server. Usually logging out completely and > then logging back into my X session resolves the problem. > > Thats all I have at the moment. Hope that helps. > > Regards, > DigbyT > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Some of my applications like xscreensaver (also rxvt and other apps) >> will return some information like: "Cannot parse color black" or "Cannot >> load color black". >> some of them (like xscreensaver) only returns the message but still >> running correctly and some of them (like rxvt) cannot be executed anymore. >> Is this a problem with the xorg server or some libs? thx! >> I am using etch. >> >> Deephay >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Digby R. S. Tarvin > digbyt(at)digbyt.com > http://www.digbyt.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
