RHBA-2018:2413 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mutter packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support.

Description

Mutter is a compositing window manager that displays and manages desktop through OpenGL. It combines the window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager with a display engine that uses the Clutter toolkit.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Due to an error in timestamp handling, the mutter compositor became unresponsive after an uptime of more than 50 days. With this update, mutter no longer becomes unresponsive. (BZ#1601946)

Users of mutter are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 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 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1601946 - port fix for 1510089 to 7.4.z [rhel-7.3.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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