KDE 4.8.1 update: kwin crashing

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 18:59 +0000, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> 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.

I assume that yum updated whatever it needed to update. Maybe that's
naive.

I meant to say "konsole" rather than "cpnsole", i.e. a terminal window.
Ctrl-Alt-Fn gets me a proper console, so I'm not trapped.

poc