On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:40:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was part of the package payload > according to dpkg, so the file should exist, unless you removed it > yourself. Because files in /etc that are shipped by packages are > "conffiles", dpkg will treat them specially, and attempt to preserve > your local modifications. > > This includes file deletion. > > Please try reinstalling xfree86-common with "dpkg -i --force-confmiss", > and please let me know if this resolves the problem.
Dear Branden, This has indeed solved the problem. Thank you for your detailed and somewhat patient response :-) -- Jonathan Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/
