On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Alec T. Habig <ha...@neutrino.d.umn.edu> 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 <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 :)
Looks like this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695603 Akemi