RHBA-2011:1115 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated kdebase-workspace packages that fix several bugs are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

KDE is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. The
kdebase-workspace packages contains utilities for basic operations with the
desktop environment. It allows users for example, to change system settings,
resize and rotate X screens or set panels and widgets on the workspace.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• If the KDE and GNOME desktop environments were both installed on one system,

two System Monitor utilities were installed as well. These, located in System
Tools of the Applications menu, had the same icons and title, which may have
confused the user. With this update, KDE icons are used for the ksysguard tool.
(BZ#587917)

• Prior to this update, the ksysguard process terminated unexpectedly with a

segmentation fault after clicking the OK button in the Properties dialog of the
Network History tab, which is included in the ksysguard application. This bug
has been fixed in this update so that ksysguard no longer crashes and works
properly. (BZ#639359)

• Previously, when rebooting the system, the kdm utility terminated with a

segmentation fault if auto-login was enabled. This was caused by a NULL password
being sent to the master process, which has been fixed, and rebooting the system
with auto-login enabled no longer causes kdm to crash. (BZ#649345)

• When clicking Help in the Battery Monitor Settings dialog of the Battery

Monitor widget, the message "The file or folder help:/plasma-desktop/index.html
does not exist" appeared instead of displaying the help pages. This update adds
the missing help pages, which fixes the problem. (BZ#666295)

All users of kdebase-workspace are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 649345 - kdm[4709]: segfault at 0 ... error 4 in kdm[400000+28000]
• BZ - 666295 - Missing help page(s) for Plasma workspace

CVEs

(none)

References

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