RHBA-2018:2781 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated dconf packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support.

Description

The dconf packages provide dconf, which is a low-level configuration system serving as back end to the GSettings API in GLib. Gnome applications rely on dconf to store their configuration.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the dconf-update utility ignored custom dconf configuration files in the /etc/dconf/db/*.d/ directories if the modification time of the directories did not change. As a consequence, the dconf configuration system did not load keys from custom files under these rare circumstances. With this update, dconf-update now checks file modification time. As a result, dconf correctly loads keys from all custom configuration files. (BZ#1626370)

Users of dconf 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 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1626370 - dconf database corrupted with no error messages [rhel-7.4.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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