Can't login after 4.2 update

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
>>
>> I did a fair number of updates last night, including KDE 4.2 packages
>> and 'kmod-nvidia-173.14.15-1.fc9.10.i686'.
>>
>> Normally, when I there is a problem with kmod-nvidia, X crashes right
>> away. However KDM seems to work just fine. But as soon as I log in,
>> the loader win comes up, then the monitor flickers (suggesting that X
>> restarted)
>>
>> The end result is that I couldn't log in to KDE this morning and was
>> too busy to create a new user. I have a secondary 'guest' user on the
>> same machine, but that account couldn't log in either.
>>
>> So I am debugging this remotely (no X).
>>
>> So I would like a suggestion on what to do about this. I didn't have
>> similar problems on my updates-testing machine, but it may not have
>> the same kmods.
>>
>> Last time I tried to switch back to nv, i basically couldn't. So if
>> that is going to be a suggestion, could some one let me know how to
>> disable desktop effects from the command line? KDE simply won't
>> startup with nv last time i tried.

> Dont know what grahics card you have

According to lspci: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)

but during the f9 release nvidia split
> geforce5(FX) support out of the main driver package so kmod-nvidia refers to
> the old driver that includes geforce5 support. If you have a geforce6 or
> higher then switch to kmod-nvidia-newest for the 180 series driver.

I switches to -newtest, and had my roommate attempt login with the
guest account, no go.

> This doesnt apply to f10 but i mention because you appear to be using f9.
> Apologies if you already knew

Even if I did, you don't need to apologize.



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