Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Decstation 3100 question... Keywords: nowindow Message-ID: <2723@decuac.DEC.COM> Date: 6 Sep 89 17:30:52 GMT References: <2432@caesar.cs.montana.edu> Sender: news@decuac.DEC.COM Distribution: na Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, SWS, Landover, MD Lines: 19 I suggest using fverify against the subsets you have installed to see if anything obvious jumps out. Some things will be different that you expect -- /etc/passwd, for example --but look for obvious X stuff. I suspect that your /usr/lib/X11/rgb.dir file is bad. (And if it is, boy won't *I* look like a wizard! :-) Actually, I've have seen that happen before...) # cd / # foreach i (/usr/etc/subsets/*.inv) > echo $i > fverify < $i > end Fred