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

[Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/14/2009 06:51 AM, Jatin K wrote:
>   On 09/12/2009 12:57 PM, Bernd Knöttig wrote:
> > 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 ...,,,,,,?????
> > > > > > ---------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > Bernd
> well ..... I've downgraded the xorg-x11-server-xorg ..... things working
> fine ......  but now every-time I start my system it shows that update
> is available.... it is nothing but * xorg-x11-server-xorg * ... is there
> any way to permanently avoid this update ...???  or every-time I've to
> deselect this up date manually ????

In /etc/yum.conf add a line:

exclude=xorg-x11-server-Xorg

Or extend an existing "exclude" line by ",xorg-x11-server-Xorg"

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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