<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Seems to be a problem with your X11 installation. Googling for "unknown color name" produces an apparent solution:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=858323">Tk + unknown color name "Black" - Ubuntu Forums</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Jean-Paul Armache wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>Due to some long needed changes, I have switched to CentOS 5.2.<br>Everything was fine for some time, but then, when trying to run Chimera,<br>I encountered the following error (applies to all versions of Chimera on<br>my harddrive - 1.2470, 1.2492 and 1.2540):<br><br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/__main__.py", line 65, in ?<br> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)<br> File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/chimeraInit.py", line 302, in<br>init<br> splash.create()<br> File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/chimera/splash.py", line 17, in<br>create<br> splash = Tk.Frame(root, background="white")<br> File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",<br>line 2375, in __init__<br> Widget.__init__(self, master, 'frame', cnf, {}, extra)<br> File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",<br>line 1862, in __init__<br> self.tk.call(<br>_tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "white"<br><br><br>I have tkinter installed, python running properly, everything<br>functional. Except for that. Do you know what could be done to fix it?<br>Best, <br><br>Jean-Paul<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>