Bug 685065

Summary: xfs code not 64bit safe and crashes with multiple clients
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: xorg-x11-xfsAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.6CC: ajax, cmeadors, ddumas, gasmith, ofourdan, plyons, pm-eus, rkhadgar
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, Triaged, ZStream
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Prior to this update, the X Window System font server (xfs) could have terminated with a segmentation fault on 64-bit platforms if the client-limit was set to values greater than 100. With this update, the underlying code has been changed and xfs remains stable regardless of the set client limit.
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Last Closed: 2011-04-20 06:51:55 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 652633    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-03-15 08:04:50 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #652633 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2011-03-29 17:34:20 UTC
3213023 build (RHEL-5.6-Z-candidate, /cvs/dist:rpms/xorg-x11-xfs/RHEL-5:xorg-x11-xfs-1_0_2-5_el5_6_1) completed successfully

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Comment 7 Eva Kopalova 2011-04-15 12:53:35 UTC
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Prior to this update, the X Window System font server (xfs) could have terminated with a segmentation fault on 64-bit platforms if the client-limit was set to values greater than 100. With this update, the underlying code has been changed and xfs remains stable regardless of the set client limit.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-20 06:51:55 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0457.html