SUMMARY: Problems running pmgr

From: Steve Imber, QUT Library Systems Group <s.imber_at_qut.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:33:45 +1100

Thanks for all the answers!


The short answer is that I had run out of colour map entries.
Yes, the culprit was Netscape.

Contributors were:

Natalia Salzberg <natalia_at_stn-atlas.com.au>
lombardi emanuele <lele_at_mantegna.casaccia.enea.it>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Bret Koontz <koontz_at_decwet.ENET.dec.com>


Contributions:

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:13:25 +1100
From: Natalia Salzberg <natalia_at_stn-atlas.com.au>
Subject: Re: Problems running pmgr
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To: "Steve Imber, QUT Library Systems Group" <s.imber_at_qut.edu.au>
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Steve Imber, QUT Library Systems Group wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> having a problem getting Polycenter Performance Manager running.
>
> When started it reports the following errors.
>
> # pmgr
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "royalblue4"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "royalblue4"
> Warning:
> Cannot parse default background color spec
>
> #
>
> The Intro PM window (nice picture :-) starts and then the main
> windows starts.
> This window's text is completely missing (?).
>
> Anyone had any experience of this??
>
> Thanks,
> Steve.

This sounds like you ran out of colors and that's why you cant see the
text. Close other GUIs

If that is not the case,

check in your /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt to make sure there is an entry for
royalblue4. In my system there is no such thing..I have only
RoyalBlue4, so if you havent got it either just copy the RoyalBlue4
entry and rename it to royalblue4

cheers

-- 
Natalia Salzberg
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 08:25:56 +0100 (MET)
From: lombardi emanuele <lele_at_mantegna.casaccia.enea.it>
Subject: Re: Problems running pmgr
To: s.imber_at_qut.edu.au
Cc: lele_at_mantegna.casaccia.enea.it
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Dear Steve,
you prpbably have some process allocating the colors pmgr misses.
It happens often to me that Netscape does the allocation of colors.
You should close graphic applications and then start pmgr again
Merry Christmas,
Emanuele
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> Hello all,
> 
> having a problem getting  Polycenter Performance Manager running.
> 
> When started it reports the following errors.
> 
> # pmgr
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "royalblue4"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "royalblue4"
> Warning:
>     Cannot parse default background color spec
> 
> #
> 
> The Intro PM window (nice picture :-) starts and then the main
> windows starts.
> This window's text is completely missing (?).
> 
> Anyone had any experience of this??
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve.
What else are you running that consumes color map entries?  Netscape is
notorious for consuming your color map, but there are other things that do
that also.  What do you have for a physical display?  Is it simple 2D or is
it one of the Open3D adapters?  That could make a difference.
Basically, you haven't even begun to provide the information needed to be
sure what's going wrong, beyond the messages that were displayed, which say
that you're out of color map entries.
Tom
 
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:33:43 -0700 (MST)
From: Bret Koontz <koontz_at_decwet.ENET.dec.com>
Subject: RE: Problems running pmgr
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          o  If your system lacks colors needed by the GUI, color
             allocation errors are written to stdout, and the GUI
             background is white, which makes many buttons illegible.
             The work-around to this is to specify a background color
             using the pmgr command with
             the -bg flag on the command line; for example:
               pmgr -bg blue

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