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

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Mon Sep 14 05:49:37 UTC 2009


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"

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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


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