Re: KDE 4.8.1 update: kwin crashing SOLVED
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 16:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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.
On the assumption that I was in fact being naive, I tried:
sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude kernel\* update k\*
(plus making sure the proposed updates were KDE-related) and lo, it
worked.
poc