Phil Perry wrote:
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 Jacksona...@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 :)
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.
One of the posters in the bugzilla entry noted the -nocpp option on
xrdb. The following works great:
$ xrdb -nocpp -merge .Xresources
I've added it to my session startup commands and helped some users do
the same.
