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 <a...@redhat.com> 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 :)
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Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
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