Issued:
2009-11-18
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1594 - gail bug fix update

Synopsis

gail bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated gail packages that resolve an issue are now available.

Description

GAIL, the GNOME Accessbility Implementation Library, implements the abstract interfaces found in the Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) for GTK+ and GNOME libraries, and thereby enables accessibility technologies such as AT-SPI (the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface) to access GUI elements.

These updated gail packages fix the following bug:

  • when starting a GNOME application at the shell prompt, the GAIL library incorrectly printed the following spurious error message when the "GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY" environment variable was set to "0", which disables GNOME accessibility support: "GTK Accessibility Module initialized". With this update, this message no longer appears when the "GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY" environment variable is set to "0". (BZ#506561)

All users of gail are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.ppc.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.src.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.s390.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.s390.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.s390x.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.ppc.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.ia64.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.ia64.rpm
  • gail-1.9.2-3.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • gail-devel-1.9.2-3.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information