RHBA-2009:1594 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gail packages that resolve an issue are now available.

Description

GAIL, the GNOME Accessbility Implementation Library, implements the
abstract interfaces found in the Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) for GTK+ and
GNOME libraries, and thereby enables accessibility technologies such as
AT-SPI (the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface) to access GUI
elements.

These updated gail packages fix the following bug:

• when starting a GNOME application at the shell prompt, the GAIL library

incorrectly printed the following spurious error message when the
"GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY" environment variable was set to "0", which disables
GNOME accessibility support: "GTK Accessibility Module initialized". With
this update, this message no longer appears when the "GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY"
environment variable is set to "0". (BZ#506561)

All users of gail are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve 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

• BZ - 506561 - Gail prints "GTK Accessibility Module initialized" when GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY is set to 0

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)