RHBA-2009:1079 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated gnome-session package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

gnome-session manages a GNOME desktop session. It starts up the other core
GNOME components and handles logout and saving the session.

This updated gnome-session package fixes the following bug:

• gnome-session, also referred to as the GNOME Session Manager, remembers

information such as which applications were open at the time of logout
(among other session details), and restores these applications upon logging
in again. A bug prevented gnome-session from restoring two applications
when both of them were named the same, such as could happen with GKrellM
system monitors, multiple instances of the KDE Konsole, and potentially
other applications with multiple instances. With this updated package,
gnome-session is able to restore all same-named application instances which
were saved in the previous session, thus resolving the problem. (BZ#484431)

All users of gnome-session are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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