On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen <tsorensen at gmail.com> wrote: > There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that > version of glibc. > > That said, it's still *highly* recommended that you update. There are > four CVEs closed by this glibc update, one of which is potentially a > remote privilege escalation (and that one is NOT the one that is > causing the issue). > > If, for some reason, you cannot update then you should seriously > consider whether or not those systems can connect to the Internet, or > if you should get the glibc from Scientific Linux that has the 3 > patches that do not cause an issue in the meantime. For clarification, this bug is only known to be affecting Evolution and Gnome-Panel, correct? If so, for most servers, the update should not be a concern. I've updated four desktops -- the two with Intel video chips are not affected at all. The two with nVidia chipsets and proprietary nVidia drivers *are* affected. Since I don't use Evolution, the "work-around" for me is to issue the "pkill gnome-panel" command. Usually doing this once will fix it, but sometimes it requires a couple shots. I dual-boot into Linux Mint 10 (so I can remotely support my father who uses Linux Mint -- I need to be able to replicate his errors when he has them). It has a very similar issue, except, in its case, both Nautilus and Gnome-Panel do not come up. I have to go to a tty terminal and issue the "pkill nautilus" and "pkill gnome-panel" commands. I didn't have this problem *until* I updated the video driver to nVidia's proprietary one. So, again, it appears it might have something to do with the nVidia's driver. At any rate, there are work-arounds -- for those who use Evolution, the SL update is probably the best. I'm kind of surprised that Red Hat has not issued a fix yet. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6