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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:07:46 -0500
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Stephan,

It is on it's way.

-Connie Sieh
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Connie,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 
> > Jon,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.  So I assume that this new version fixes the
> > font problem.
> 
> My build of -97.EL does. I'd much rather roll out an "official" build,
> though.
> 
> We also received first complaints about the font problem from users. The 
> problem won't show up as long as xfs isn't restarted (and that doesn't 
> happen during the package update, and not even due to "init3; init 5"), 
> which is probably why it doesn't show up very often - yet. Of course it 
> also seems not to affect most applications.
> 
> We haven't encountered the PCI config space issue yet, but it's still the 
> one that scares me more.
> 
>    Stephan
> 
> > -Connie Sieh
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:
> >>
> >>> Stephan,
> >>>
> >>> I guess I was going to ask the audience(this list) if we should put it
> >>> in.  I started to download it yesterday before I realized it was not a
> >>> security errata.  I say to put it in.
> >>
> >> For what it's worth since the font corruption the previous update
> >> introduced was a serious pain for us we switched directly to the -97.EL
> >> release rather the going via the "security update" first.  After some
> >> testing we rolled it out to 240 machines on Monday morning (along with
> >> some changes to our default session handling which we have to get in
> >> before Term starts).
> >>
> >> So far there have been no problems associated with this -- though our new
> >> default (Gnome) session is causing some complaints :-/
> >>
> >>>> any chance that the last XFree86 fix
> >>>>
> >>>>   	https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-787.html
> >>>>
> >>>> makes it into SL3 errata? I know it's not security, but then it's
> >>>> a fix for the packages released as security errata. The pci issue
> >>>> really seems scary, and it seems to have already bitten at least one SL
> >>>> site already.
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 

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