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

[Suvayu Ali]

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?

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Suvayu

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