Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:1220 - gnome-session bug fix update

Synopsis

gnome-session bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated gnome-session packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The gnome-session package provides a utility to start up and manage the GNOME desktop session. Gnome-session starts up other core components of GNOME and handles log-outs and saves the sessions.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the gnome-session utility did not fully honor the "Hidden=" key in autostart desktop files. As a consequence, users could not mark autostart files as Hidden= in their home directory to disable autostart files in system directories.With this update, gnome-session allows users to "mask" system autostart files by installing a file of the same name in ~/.config/autostart with a key Hidden=true when loading autostart files. (BZ#477688)

All users of gnome-session are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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

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

  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.i386.rpm
  • gnome-session-debuginfo-2.16.0-10.el5.s390x.rpm
  • gnome-session-debuginfo-2.16.0-10.el5.ia64.rpm
  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gnome-session-debuginfo-2.16.0-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.ppc.rpm
  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.s390x.rpm
  • gnome-session-debuginfo-2.16.0-10.el5.i386.rpm
  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.src.rpm
  • gnome-session-debuginfo-2.16.0-10.el5.ppc.rpm
  • gnome-session-2.16.0-10.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information