On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Alec T. Habig <[log in to unmask]> 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 :)
Looks like this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695603
Akemi
