Several users started complaining today about various X apps, such as
xterm and emacs, that no longer look the way they want. It looks like
the resources they set in their .Xresources files are no longer set.
In ~/.xsession-errors I find the following:
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
The following is suspicious:
% xrdb -merge .Xresources
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Note that the .Xresources file is fine and hasn't been changed in 3 years.
Then there is this:
% ls -l /usr/bin/xrdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25064 Apr 12 06:40 /usr/bin/xrdb*
% rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/xrdb
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1.x86_64
I think this package is broken.
