On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:45:46PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:56 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > > I confirm that the update crashes gnome-panel. The panel bars > > are displayed void of contents upon login. > > The gnome panel crashes are caused by the glibc update which is the main > subject of that thread. This xorg-x11-server-utils is a different and > perhaps not quite as severe issue as the one with glibc. This update > breaks xrdb, the binary it is supposed to fix. No other binaries are > affected, so it's the choice between a functional binary with a > moderately severe vulnerability or a non functional binary. Leonard, You're perfectly right, sorry for messing things up. I indeed updated glibc and nscd from the SL fix to restore panel functionality. Regards, Mihai