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<[log in to unmask]>  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.