Cannot Login After Updates

[LinuxLuvr]

This morning I had the notification that there were 21 updates available, and I selected to install them. The system then notified me that a restart was required and I clicked the restart button. After restarting, the system boots to the GUI screen and I select my name and enter the password. It then plays the login sound, the cursor "swirls" and it cycles back to the login screen. Switching over to another terminal screen I can login from the command line.

Any ideas what's going on and/or how I can correct this?

TIA!!

[CSchwangler]

Do you have proprietary graphics drivers installed? If I remember correctly, there were xorg updates, which may have screwed your drivers. Can you view the log files, e.g. (/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log)?

[blae]

I also have this problem. Please CHECK /var/log/yum.log, if you have UPDATE xorg-x11-server-Xorg, maybe you need to DOWNGRADE it.

On gdm login window, press 'Ctrl+Alt+F2', and login with root
1) yum install yum-plugin-allowdowngrade
2) yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

Notice: First need to configure your local network card in order to guarantee access to the Internet

[den23513]

Add new user as root and login with it.
I have same problem, but don't know at this time how to resolve it.

[PittsS1E]

I upgraded this morning, after restart operates only in KDE desktop, GNOME appears to have vanished from the system (Fedora 11) - any ideas welcome

[blae]

When system boots to the GUI screen, DON'T select my name and enter the password. At this time, press 'Ctrl+Alt+F2', so you will see another windows ask you INPUT your login name.
On this screen, INPUT login name with 'root', and INPUT root's password.

When you logon with root, Access network line to the local network card. Then use command 'ifconfig' to configure the local network card parameters in order to access the Internet.
Example:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.22
route add default 192.168.1.1
echo "nameserver 202.106.0.20" > /etc/resolv.conf

AND, downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg.

[nothinggoespast]

I have the same problem

[LinuxLuvr]

I also have this problem. Please CHECK /var/log/yum.log, if you have UPDATE xorg-x11-server-Xorg, maybe you need to DOWNGRADE it.

On gdm login window, press 'Ctrl+Alt+F2', and login with root
1) yum install yum-plugin-allowdowngrade
2) yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

Notice: First need to configure your local network card in order to guarantee access to the Internet

This took care of the problem; thanks!

Anyone knows if this should be submitted as a bug report?

[~cyrus~]

Can confirm the same issue on an IBM ThinkPad R51, and thanks for the instructions to sort this out...logging in as 'root' as suggested over a wired connection on my laptop, and performing 'yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg'

Would appreciate any further feedback or updates on this issue.

Regards.

[Finagle]

I have been having similar problems, but only the Plasma Workspace of KDE is crashing.
A firefox window reopened from my previous session, and internet works, but without a background or and desktop effects like right click
I tried the downgrade and it told me upgrade was the only option

[beasel]

I had the same problem on a Thinkpad T400 running f11_64 and just wanted to say thanks for the downgrade instructions, they worked for me too. I'm brand new to Fedora -- should this be filed as a bug over in the RedHat bugzilla? I looked there but couldn't find anything about it.

[~cyrus~]

This is what worked for me on a ThinkPad R51

1. Disable desktop effects

2. As per this thread

As root, type:

Xorg -configure :1

In the section "Device" add the following line:

	Option      "Tiling"			"False"

Copy the resulting xorg.conf which is /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

From what I can gather, this issue was related to a 'Tiling' issue that I had in GNOME


Hope that helps.

[benhongh]

I too had this problem after updating last night. In desperation i switched to another terminal, killed Xorg, which automatically restarts and had me back at the gdm. I then proceeded log in as usual and it went ok from there.

[sidebrnz]

My laptop just got hit by this bug. Killing Xorg didn't work, so I tried the downgrade. Alas, yum refused to install the plugin. Eventually, after finding out that --disableexclude=all didn't work, I tried --disableplugins and got it installed. That allowed me to downgrade the server, and I'm back in business. Does anybody know if this has been reported to bugzilla?

[MarionCobretti]

I'm happy to report that the xorg.conf workaround ~cyrus~ posted worked for me. Those of you for whom the downgrade isn't working might want to give it a shot.