Thanks for the feedback, Andreas. That saves me some testing time. It
looks like the security bug
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_security_cve_cve-2D2018-2D14665&d=DwIDbA&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=VStRhNQ03emrmYLjFAIDre-xzZT0Ho_w1biFWTQSbtc&s=pGQ8kJ1ceFEdtE90n9wkzNyf0BcBKbllIvhnPdeLWjc&e=) needs physical
access to the console to exploit. Fortunately that shouldn't be a
problem in our environment, where the users are more interested in
hacking neurons.
I noticed in the Errata message for the xorg-x11-server update, it says
"The SL Team added a fix for upstream bug 1650634". I'm wondering if
this bug fix (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bugzilla.redhat.com_show-5Fbug.cgi-3Fid-3D1650634&d=DwIDbA&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=VStRhNQ03emrmYLjFAIDre-xzZT0Ho_w1biFWTQSbtc&s=vz7Ui2PF_YcxXFRgPhPceXRL1HuDpy8255vaqI-vmbE&e=) broke
things for the Radeon drivers. Seems a more likely cause than the CVE
fix for an argument handling issue. That fix was to support the SL 7.6
upgrade on nVidia hardware. I'll have to see if the 7.6 upgrade (now
available) makes the problem go away for the radeon 3000. If not, I'll
likely downgrade Xorg to 1.19 on our systems till I hear of a fix for this.
Thanks again,
Gilles
On 2018-12-03 10:52, Andreas Nowack wrote:
I would exclude the kernel as source of the problem since downgrade to
Xorg 1.19 removes all the error messages and problems. (But due to
security bugs, Xorg 1.19 is not a real option).
Best regards,
Andreas
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