Re: unable to login after getting system update of X11 in fedora 11

Bernd Knöttig writes:

Germán Racca schrieb am, 12.09.2009 07:04:

On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 10:43 +0530, Jatin K wrote:

On 09/11/2009 01:12 PM, Bernd Knöttig wrote:

Jatin K schrieb am, 11.09.2009 07:08:

Dear list


I'm not able to login after system update on Sep 10. the update I got is
[1], whenever I try to login, it automatically logs off (I think there
are some problem with X server )........ after retrying 10 to 15 times
I'm able to login and thing works fine .... can anybody help me to solve
this problem ...,,,,,,?????
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I had the same problem on two different laptops running Fedora
11/Gnome with an intel 945 chipset after recent xorg-update. A
downgrade to previous version of xorg-x11-server-Xorg solved the problem.

Bernd

ok....   How do I downgrade to previous version of xorg-x11-server
......  step by step guide ?????

yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

Prior to this you have to perform a "yum install yum-plugin-allowdowngrade". Be carfull not to make a re-update with next yum-update.

Alternatively, disable desktop effects/compiz. The breakage seems to be with compiz barfing, which kicks you out of X.

It's kinda hard to disable desktop effects when you can't even log in. Flip over to ALT-F2 and log in to the console.

cd $HOME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/session/required_components

There should be a lone %gconf.xml there. Edit it, and carefully snip out the <entry> part that contains a <stringvalue> with compiz-gtk. If it's the only <entry>, just remove the entire file.

This allowed me to log in without having to downgrade xorg. No eye candy any more, of course.

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