RHBA-2011:0501 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated kdebase package that fixes various bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop environment for the X
Window System. The kdebase package includes core applications for the K Desktop
Environment.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Due to incorrect handling of transient groups, closing a dialog box of a Java

application could cause the KWin window manager to terminate unexpectedly. This
update applies an upstream patch that corrects this error, and KWin no longer
crashes when a Java dialog box is closed. (BZ#501483)

• Prior to this update, a race condition in the KWin window manager could cause

it to ignore configure requests. Consequent to this, Motif-based applications
may have been occasionally displayed with an incorrect window size. With this
update, the underlying source code has been adapted to ensure the configure
requests are received, and Motif applications are now always displayed with a
correct window size. (BZ#561844)

• When a user's password expires, the KDM login manager displays a dialog box

that forces the user to change the password upon the next login. Previously,
canceling this dialog box caused KDM to stop responding. With this update, the
"Cancel" button has been removed from the dialog box, resolving this issue.
(BZ#579707)

• Previously, selecting the "Save History As..." option from the "Edit" menu

after clearing the history could cause the Konsole terminal emulator to
terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update ensures that a
correct variable is used to access the current session, and selecting the "Save
History As..." menu option no longer causes Konsole to crash. (BZ#580485)

• On a system with dual screens enabled, selecting the "Cascade" window

placement option in the KDE Control Center and opening a new window on the
second screen could cause KWin to consider the new window off screen, and thus
change the window placement back to "Smart". This update corrects the window
placement algorithm to take into account the position of the screens, so that
the "Cascade" window placement now works on both screens. (BZ#584822)

• Due to an error in the RPM spec file, when the lm_sensors-devel package was

installed, the support for lm_sensors was automatically enabled on all
architectures. However, the lm_sensors packages are only built for the x86
architectures, and an attempt to rebuild the kdebase package on the Itanium
architecture failed. This update corrects the spec file to enable the lm_sensors
support only on x86 architectures, so that the kdebase package can now be
rebuilt successfully on all supported architectures. (BZ#638849)

All users of kdebase are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 501483 - kwin crashes when closing Java dialog boxes
• BZ - 561844 - Race condition in kwin ignores configure requests causing wrong size of Motif windows
• BZ - 580485 - [kdebase] konsole crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 584822 - kwin uses smart placement instead of cascade in multi-screen even if cascade placement is selected
• BZ - 638849 - kdebase rebuild from srpm failed if the build system has lm_sensors-devel installed

CVEs

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References

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