What on earth just happened?

[Rex Dieter]

Tom Horsley wrote:

> I ran yum update this morning, getting a gazillion updates.
> I rebooted the system.
> 
> When it came back up, I couldn't log in. I'd get a KDM screen,
> login, then immediately get the KDM screen again.
> 
> I tried to login with a "failsafe" session which gave me
> (apparently) an xterm that printed black rectangles
> for all characters :-).
> 
> I tried other sessions like xfce and gnome and got the
> same KDM login screen popping back up after I typed
> my password


I think you hit 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095920

I think 4.11.9-4 build should fix it (coming to updates-testing soon).

-- Rex