KDE 4.8.1 update: kwin crashing

Sat Mar 10 18:59:11 UTC 2012

On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 11:27:51 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Last night I noticed a lot of 4.8.* rpms in updates-testing, so I
> decided to have go:
> 
> sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update "KDE Software Compilation"
> 
> Now I find that Kwin crashes on login, leaving me without a window
> manager, and hence unable even to focus on a console window. Kwin is
> from kde-workspace-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64. The problem occurs even when I
> rename .kde and try again.

Not seeing that here poc, have all the kde related packages been updated, 
maybe be worth checking to be sure.

In situations like this I have found yakuake invaluable to get to a konsole.

F16-x86_64/4.8.1

Colin

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