Ubuntu
xorg package

Missing rgb.txt file

Bug #20161 reported by Frédéric RIss
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel Stone

Bug Description

The file /etc/X11/rgb.txt is missing from the xorg-common package.

% dpkg -L xorg-common | grep rgb
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
% ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 21 11:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt ->
/etc/X11/rgb.txt
% ls /etc/X11/rgb.txt
ls: /etc/X11/rgb.txt: No such file or directory

This prevents for example emacs from starting, becaue it tries to lookup colors
given by Xresources and don't find them.

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) wrote :

What version do you have? It's OK here.

    $ dpkg -L xorg-common | g rgb.txt
    /etc/X11/rgb.txt
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
    $ apt-show-versions -p xorg-common
    xorg-common/unknown uptodate 6.8.2-10

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Frédéric RIss (frederic-riss) wrote :

I've got a newer one. I forgot to mention this is an uptodate breezy install.

% apt-show-versions -p xorg-common
xorg-common/unknown uptodate 6.8.2-53

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

install xrgb, which is now depended upon by other things

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fl (fl-well) wrote :

hello,

installed Breezy i386 from the Colony 3 CD image. After the install, and an
"apt-get update/upgrade", the RGB database is not on the system (the xrgb
package is not installed). Only thing installed is (as reported by Frederic) the
symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt pointing to the nonexisting target.
Thankfully, I found the bug report... (after snarfing the rgb database from an
existing system, duh).

Daniel, the dependencies you mentioned - should they be there, or are they in a
later version? I can't seem to find this dependency in my x-org-common 6.8.2-53

regards
Florenz

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

Yeah, see #13214.

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