On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:49 PM, David M. Cooke <[email protected]>wrote:
> Phil Perry wrote: > >> On 13/04/11 15:47, Alec T. Habig wrote: >> >> >>> David M. Cooke writes: >>> >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>> Same in EL6. The changelog for this package says: >>> >>> * Wed Mar 16 2011 Adam Jackson<[email protected]> 7.4-15.el6_0.1 >>> - cve-2011-0465: Sanitize cpp macro expansion. (CVE 2011-0465) >>> >>> which sounds like something that could indeed break .Xresources parsing. >>> Although in my case, not only old-style X apps lost their fonts marbles, >>> but so did the KDE programs, menus, etc -- which I didn't think used the >>> old-style X fonts at all. >>> >>> After wasting 15 minutes resetting fonts in many different places, X is >>> usable again. I'm sure Murphy's Law says that this bug will be fixed >>> tomorrow and we'll all have to re-reset things :) >>> >>> >>> >> >> Thanks for your posts David and Alec. I thought I was losing my marbles >> when all my fonts went screwy on EL5/KDE so good to know the root cause. >> >> >> > > One of the posters in the bugzilla entry noted the -nocpp option on xrdb. > The following works great: > > $ xrdb -nocpp -merge .Xresources > > > I've added it to my session startup commands and helped some users do the > same. > As you will have seen, the issue has been resolved with xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0454.html gregory
