On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:05 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

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> Eric, can you test your scenario with Emacs 24.5, please?
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> The problem also happens in 24.5.

I also noticed that, once the problem has happened, if I close the
emacsclient frame with C-x 5 0, then create another one with
TERM=xterm-256color, the colors in the *Colors* buffer are restored.