Issued:

2014-10-13

Updated:

2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1585 - gnome-session bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

gnome-session bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated gnome-session packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The gnome-session packages manage the GNOME desktop session. It starts up the other core components of GNOME and handles logout and saving of the session.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Due to insufficient checking, the "Switch User" button appeared in the logout dialog window even when user switching was disabled by the lock down configuration. A patch has been provided to fix this bug, and the "Switch User" button is now removed when the user logs out. (BZ#684767)

• Due to incorrect clean up of resources at shutdown, the "Startup Applications" GUI did not submit changes immediately. If the user closed the dialog window earlier than 2 seconds after making a change, the change failed to be committed. To fix this bug, the dialog window on shutdown has been deleted, so that its dispose handler commits pending changes immediately. As a result, the user can enable or disable additional startup programs and quickly close the dialog window without the risk of losing changes. (BZ#785828, BZ#1069503)

• Prior to this update, there were inadequate checks in the gnome-session utility for a preexisting gnome-session instance. Consequently, running gnome-session within a GNOME session started a nested broken session. With this update, a check for the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable has been added. As a result, if the user runs gnome-session within a preexisting session by mistake, an error message is returned. (BZ#982423)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, if the user accidentally clicked "Remember Running Applications" and was using the custom session selector, they could not proceed without saving. This update provides the close button for the session selector to enable the user to refrain from saving. (BZ#786573)

Users of gnome-session are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gnome-session-custom-session-2.28.0-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• gnome-session-2.28.0-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• gnome-session-custom-session-2.28.0-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• gnome-session-2.28.0-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• gnome-session-xsession-2.28.0-22.el6.i686.rpm
• gnome-session-2.28.0-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• gnome-session-xsession-2.28.0-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• gnome-session-2.28.0-22.el6.src.rpm
• gnome-session-xsession-2.28.0-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• gnome-session-debuginfo-2.28.0-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• gnome-session-debuginfo-2.28.0-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• gnome-session-custom-session-2.28.0-22.el6.i686.rpm
• gnome-session-debuginfo-2.28.0-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• gnome-session-xsession-2.28.0-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• gnome-session-2.28.0-22.el6.i686.rpm
• gnome-session-debuginfo-2.28.0-22.el6.i686.rpm
• gnome-session-custom-session-2.28.0-22.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 785828
• This content is not included.BZ - 1069503

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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