Re: The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)
> XFree86 3.3.2-4 just got installed into the archive today (I uploaded it
> Sunday).
>
> Unless you have bandwidth to spare, please don't download it without
> good reason. With impeccable timing, a CERT bulletin warning of
> possible security problems with xlib and xterm was released just after
> I finished -4, so -5 will be coming out very, very soon.
I'm not sure whether I want to spare my bandwidth, but I've installed 3.3.2-4
version (just because dselect wanted to do this and I was too lazy to
contradict). And now all my xterms have a totally black background. Is it to
warn about the security problem or just that security problem itself? :-)
Anyway, I was unable to find out how to return my standard (light gray?)
background back. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm is identical to the
previous one. If it's a bug, just consider this message as a bug-report, but
if it's a feature, I would appreciate very much knowing how to get rid of it.
I also had the following problems with installation:
1) xserver-svga post-install script produced some strange error (sorry, I
didn't pay attention to this at that time and ignored it), and I've lost my
/etc/X11/Xserver file. It was easy to reconstruct it from Xserver.dpkg-new,
though.
2) xauth produced an error on startup the following error:
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "blackshark." in "add" command
(blackshark is a host name). But this one was easy to fix also (just to change
the corresponding line in startx script).
Thanks for the help!
--- Shurik.
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