openSUSE Recommended Update: xorg-x11-libXext: This update fixes a race condition in libXext ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2010:0210-1 Rating: low References: #578577 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: XAllocID must only be called with the Display lock held. There's a race condition in libXext that causes apps that use the X shared memory extensions to occasionally crash. It affects lots of X programs, including Evolution, Firefox, various parts of Gnome, etc. Fixed by this update. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.2: zypper in -t patch xorg-x11-libXext-2379 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 src x86_64): xorg-x11-libXext-7.4-7.2.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (i586 x86_64): xorg-x11-libXext-devel-7.4-7.2.1 - openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64): xorg-x11-libXext-32bit-7.4-7.2.1 xorg-x11-libXext-devel-32bit-7.4-7.2.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/578577