On 11/07/2014 07:11 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:00:17PM -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>
>> I got bit by it too.  I had to restore my /etc/X11 directory.
>>
>> Do you know if it is safe yet to let any xorg update go through?
>>
>
> Best I can tell, you are okey if all packages are up to date from SL and ELREPO repositories.
>
> Only the transition across the incompatible X11 API change was rough.
>
> I had ELREPO updates turned off, got broken until manually updates.
>
> If I had them turned on, would have been broken by the ELREPO update because of the problem with unloading the old kernel module.
>
> Regarding the unloading of the kernel module, it looks like the whole X11/Xorg mess of scripts
> has no hook or place where I can run my own command *before* Xorg is fired up (I could install
> a fake /usr/bin/Xorg, but that would not survive rpm/yum update). Plenty of scriptable places *after* Xorg starts,
> none *before*.
>

I wonder if dropping to "init 3" before and updating "elrepo"
before doing the regular updates would have helped?