Fedora 11 update created Login problem

This week (10/9/2009), a F11 update introduced GDM and KDM login problems on users with active options on Desktop Effects.

The symptoms were:

• Password entered.
• Screen changed, as if logon was successful.
• Screen blacked out.
• Logon screen presented again.

Disabling Desktop Effects appears to solve this problem.

See more details and solutions:

Login fails (Fedora 11 configurations)

Fedora 11 Linux experience

I started using Fedora 11 shortly after the final release was launched. Yet, I've been using other Linux distribuitions and releases for many years.

From this experience, I concluded that it's important to have a record of all the tweaks made to Linux installations. I started those records on paper, a small booklet/notepad that I keep with my own annotations on several subjects.

After a while, I realized that:

• It's not practical.
• Won't be helpful to anyone else.

Therefore I decided that I should place all this information online, thus helping myself and others (hopefully).

The result is this blog, that tracks random events on my F11 experience, and a site that aggregates information, and can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/fedora11config/.