RHBA-2015:2157 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated control-center packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The control-center packages contain configuration utilities for the GNOME desktop, which allow to configure accessibility options, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other settings.

The control-center, gnome-initial-setup, gnome-online-accounts, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-desktop3, and gsettings-desktop-schemas packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.14.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. For more details on these changes, see the upstream release notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Release Notes linked to in the References section. (BZ#1174602, BZ#1174725, BZ#1174600, BZ#1174593, BZ#1174445, BZ#1174444)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Due to insufficient permissions granted, the user was allowed to join a domain during the initial setup. Consequently, a cryptic error message was displayed when trying to join the domain. This update provides an adjustment of the Polkit policy to authorize gnome-initial-setup to join domains, and users can now successfully join Active Directory domains from gnome-initial-setup. (BZ#1041630)
• Previously, insufficient ordering constraints in start up services caused AccountsService to access users from the nsswitch utility before nsswitch was fully available. As a consequence, autologin could malfunction at start if it was configured for a network user account. This update ensures correct ordering of the AccountsService with nsswitch services by using the "Before=nss-user-lookup.target" dependency in the AccountsService systemd unit file, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#1217439)
• Due to resource leaks that caused signals to be called when the related "Settings" panel was closed, control-center terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This bug has been fixed within the rewrite of gnome-bluetooth helper libraries, and control-center no longer crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#1081120)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• Previously, a remote session of desktop sharing was created without any user confirmation or password access. A new feature for the Vino VNC GUI has been implemented to offer the user the ability to restrict desktop sharing options. (BZ#826195)
• This enhancement update introduces On Screen Display, showing the layout of the tablet buttons and the action shortcuts associated with them. On Screen Display is multihead and left-handed orientation aware. (BZ#852713)
• When searching in the "add printer" dialog, the search now starts immediately after the user stops typing. With this update, there is no need to confirm the search demand. (BZ#867382)
• This update adds support for geocode-glib and geoclue2 that allow geocoding, reverse geocoding, and geolocation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (BZ#1184198, BZ#1184199)

Users of control-center are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 867382 - [RFE] Printers - Add a button to confirm search by given address
• BZ - 868826 - wireless network profile behaves incorrectly when wifi turned off/on in gnome-shell applet
• BZ - 980692 - gdm login screen in VMs: the ACPI power button should by default effect a shutdown
• BZ - 1041630 - unhelpful message when join IPA domain
• BZ - 1049911 - "Approve All Connections" is ambiguous
• BZ - 1049968 - [abrt] control-center-3.8.3-2.fc19: device_changed: Process /usr/bin/gnome-control-center was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 1054295 - add some text field to determine in which section we are with a11y (orca reader)
• BZ - 1065919 - [abrt] gnome-settings-daemon: _gdk_x11_display_error_event(): gnome-settings-daemon killed by SIGTRAP
• BZ - 1075190 - [ThinkPad T440s] Disabling touchpad also disables hardware clicking
• BZ - 1081120 - [abrt] control-center: adapter_changed(): gnome-control-center killed by SIGSEGV
• BZ - 1134864 - cannot add windows live account
• BZ - 1141949 - Cannot remove Active Directory user accounts using GUI (or cli)
• BZ - 1151754 - Untranslated string in French translation
• BZ - 1174444 - Rebase to 3.14.2
• BZ - 1174445 - Rebase to 3.14.2
• BZ - 1174593 - Rebase to 3.14.4
• BZ - 1174600 - Rebase to 3.14.2
• BZ - 1174602 - Rebase to 3.14.5
• BZ - 1174725 - Rebase to 3.14.2
• BZ - 1176213 - [abrt] gnome-settings-daemon: _gdk_x11_display_error_event(): gnome-settings-daemon killed by SIGTRAP
• BZ - 1185949 - [abrt] control-center: sweep_line_delete(): gnome-control-center killed by SIGSEGV
• BZ - 1189888 - Kerberos ticket auto-renewal not working
• BZ - 1207380 - Export the session bus ID as an xsetting
• BZ - 1217439 - accountsservice.service should be loaded after nss-user-lookup.target
• BZ - 1221078 - bond removal causes crash
• BZ - 1221613 - Filename should not contain ':' or be configurable
• BZ - 1221691 - [abrt] [faf] gnome-initial-setup: unknown function(): /usr/libexec/gnome-initial-setup killed by 5
• BZ - 1221940 - Obsolete geoclue1
• BZ - 1242061 - race condition in gnome-welcome-tour may prevent getting-started invocation
• BZ - 1242861 - enterprise user is not logged in after creation in g-i-s
• BZ - 1260081 - smartcard removal/insertion not detected (7.2 beta)

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal