Synopsis

gnome-screensaver bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gnome-screensaver packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The gnome-screensaver packages contain the GNOME project's official screen saver
program. The screen saver is designed for improved integration with the GNOME
desktop, including themeability, language support, and Human Interface
Guidelines (HIG) compliance. It also provides screen-locking and fast
user-switching from a locked screen.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, when using the virt-manager, virt-viewer, and spice-xpi
  applications, users were unable to enter the gnome-screensaver password after
  the screen saver had started. This occurred only when the virtual machine system
  used the Compiz composting window manager. After users had released the mouse
  cursor, then pressed a key to enter the password, the dialog window did not
  accept any input. This happened due to incorrect assignment of window focus to
  applications that did not drop their keyboard grab. With this update, window
  focus is now properly assigned to the correct place, and attempts to enter the
  gnome-screensaver password no longer fail in the described scenario. (BZ#905935)
  
• Prior to this update, the gnome-screensaver utility worked incorrectly when
  using an X server that does not support the fade-out function. Consequently,
  gnome-screensaver terminated unexpectedly when trying to fade out the monitor.
  This bug has been fixed and gnome-screensaver now detects a potential fade-out
  failure and recovers instead of crashing. (BZ#947671)
  

Users of gnome-screensaver 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 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

Fixes

• BZ - 905935 - virt-viewer - unable to enter gnome-screensaver password
• BZ - 998448 - [abrt] gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-27.el6: find_usable_monitor: Process /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
x86_64
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8b53eb695db97dd7be4bb65ef5c175f4e5b9a561ad02b64c2b4d3060ab3c6e8c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bab3016f4ccb09d75e61e81186db1898b61456a11be2d5104f0ac58b1a9e2f0d
i386
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 354a994eaeef84acc75b9e3e0f5517ce4f72fbc524bccf14604af2c09ef7d75c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 9cf7b72d422a1ad73f373c33cd582412fa7933c5e676c898fff25e021ecf2d14

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
x86_64
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8b53eb695db97dd7be4bb65ef5c175f4e5b9a561ad02b64c2b4d3060ab3c6e8c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bab3016f4ccb09d75e61e81186db1898b61456a11be2d5104f0ac58b1a9e2f0d
i386
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 354a994eaeef84acc75b9e3e0f5517ce4f72fbc524bccf14604af2c09ef7d75c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 9cf7b72d422a1ad73f373c33cd582412fa7933c5e676c898fff25e021ecf2d14

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
x86_64
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8b53eb695db97dd7be4bb65ef5c175f4e5b9a561ad02b64c2b4d3060ab3c6e8c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bab3016f4ccb09d75e61e81186db1898b61456a11be2d5104f0ac58b1a9e2f0d
i386
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 354a994eaeef84acc75b9e3e0f5517ce4f72fbc524bccf14604af2c09ef7d75c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 9cf7b72d422a1ad73f373c33cd582412fa7933c5e676c898fff25e021ecf2d14

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
s390x
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: fa44751ab0272e9cc14cd5305e6ae077e921fb366566f48fe9bd579210cf4800
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: bfa6858481bf521ce4fc790b0ddc2009a8c7adcbd97d82807e79eedfaa45db5d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
ppc64
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 24e93e4156bf54c0a37ce948c1904fec62a08041397fc6926dedb84548f51bc4
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 5160602e338b4d248c1870ad385f149ed3afcecd93bded8dddac7b4a76504b71

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fd9732856747bee56437396110716383c9a9b7e129248756b2bf06a963600344
x86_64
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8b53eb695db97dd7be4bb65ef5c175f4e5b9a561ad02b64c2b4d3060ab3c6e8c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bab3016f4ccb09d75e61e81186db1898b61456a11be2d5104f0ac58b1a9e2f0d
i386
gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 354a994eaeef84acc75b9e3e0f5517ce4f72fbc524bccf14604af2c09ef7d75c
gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.28.3-28.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 9cf7b72d422a1ad73f373c33cd582412fa7933c5e676c898fff25e021ecf2d14