GDM Crashes After Latest Xorg Updates for FC2

[Globe Trotter]

Interestingly enough, FedoraNews www.fedoranews.org does not have this
xorg-x11-6.7.0-9 update in their list. Wonder why!

As an aside, does anyone know what one should do to not have the yum nightly
update run over this older version of xorg-x11?

Thanks and best wishes!


--- "H. Dox" <heterodox at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> Jim Cornette wrote:
> > HD wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >> I have had a similar but more serious problem after installing the 
> >> recent updated mentioned in the bug report. But I am not using nVidia 
> >> drivers. I have a Radeon 7000 card and am using the default drivers 
> >> that come with FC2.
> >>
> >> My problem occured yesterday when I tried loging out of KDE. I 
> >> recieved an error message saying the greeter had crached. After 
> >> clicking OK on the error dialogue the greeter tried to restart but the 
> >> error ocurred again. I had to leave for work at that time so I just 
> >> shut off the computer. When I arrived home from work I could not get 
> >> anything graphical to work. Not even the graphical boot would start. I 
> >> them booted into windows and tryed to google for some information on 
> >> the problem but didn't find anything useful at that time. So, I took 
> >> drastic measures and completely reinstalled FC2. Though a bit of a 
> >> pain for other reasons it did solve the problem and all things 
> >> graphical are working again. I have since updated everything except 
> >> xorg-x11 stuff and everything continues to work. Of course, I'm now 
> >> scared to death to updated anything having to do with xorg-x11 :) I 
> >> hope this information will help sort out the problem.
> >>
> >> Also, I am still just in the learning stages of getting to know Linux 
> >> and I realize there was probably a better way of getting FC2 to work 
> >> again instead of reinstalling it. So, if anyone would like offer 
> >> suggestions on how I could have handled this in a better way, please 
> >> do :)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> HD
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > This might be related to some changes introduced in this latest version 
> > of X. The problem with the radeon 7200 was experienced by myself and 
> > another user. The radeon 7200 is even worse than you describe the radeon 
> > 7000 problem. You get system lockups at boot.
> > 
> > One note: You should probebly file a bug in the xorg-x11 bugtracking 
> > system.
> > 
> > I filed the below bug for development. It might be helpful for them to 
> > know that the problem surfaces between version 6.7.0-5 and 6.7.0-9. This 
> > should narrow down the offending code, which breaks support for the 
> > radeon 7000 and 7200.
> > 
> > https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1384
> > 
> > Also, version 6.7.0-5 is still available on the mirror. You might be 
> > able to upgrade to this and wait for the bug to be squashed which is in 
> > the -9 version.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> 
> Okay, I was able to find the version 6.7.0-5 on a mirror and have 
> upgraded to that. All seems to be okay.
> 
> I also filed my very first bug report on this problem.
> 
> https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1529
> 
> I hope I didn't make too big of a mess of it. I pretty much just said 
> what I have posted here since it's the only way I could think to relate 
> the problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> HD
> 
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