Black seems to be an undefined colour

[Darius Hardy]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:12 +0200, wwp wrote:
> Hello Darius,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:05:30 +0100 Darius Hardy <darius at sephs.no-ip.info> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I've just done a clean install of Core 5 (and yum update as of this
> > morning) and emacs is refusing to start with the error 'Undefined color:
> > "black"'. Attempting to run xterm and xclock both give similar messages
> > about black but they do run.
> > I've got Core 3 on another PC, and up until the other day have had Core
> > 4 on this without problems. The rgb.txt file is definitely there and
> > contains black. Any suggestions on what to look for?
> 
> FYI `xclock -bg black` and `xterm -bg black` work as expected here (FC5), I
> know, it doesn't help that much.
> 
> 
> Regards,

I've managed to track it down. For some reason the path to rgb.txt was
set to the wrong directory in xorg.conf, everything is working now.
Thanks for your time.
-- 
  Darius,
    She who travels light, forgot something.