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

[Jatin K]

On 09/14/2009 02:15 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 10:49 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> 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"
>>
>
> As a note, this also means you won't be able to update this package 
> even when the bug is fixed, without editing this line again. Isn't 
> running without desktop effects a more practical solution here?
>
Problem is solved after updating from *xorg-x11-server-xorg-1.6.3.4.fc11 
*to * xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4-0.1.fc11.i586*  released on date Sep 21 
2009

Regards