after today's updates cannot log in

[fred smith]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:40:45AM -0300, Rodrigo Renault wrote:
> Hello Fred,
> 
> There is another topic discussing this issue. The problem seems to be with
> the xorg-xserver update. To temporary solve it you can downgrade your
> xorg-xserver.
> #yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> After this your login should work again. If you don't want to downgrade,
> just disable compiz/desktop effects  and you should be able to login again.
> There is a bug open for it, you can follow it at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522863
> 
> 
> regards.
> 
> Rodrigo Renault
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522863>

Rodrigo, thanks for the info. I had seen (after I posted, obviously)
that other thread, and disabled desktop effects and since then it
appears to be working, though I've only rebooted a couple of times
so far.

Thanks!

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