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.
Writing this from FVWM (which is very functional and fast BTW :-)
poc
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
-- Fedora release 16 (Verne) Registered Linux user number #342953
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
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
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On the assumption that I was in fact being naive, I tried:
sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude kernel* update k*
If you have the yum-security plugin installed, you can specifically request to install FEDORA-2012-3474 with a command-line switch.
(Please note that I do not recommend the main "feature" of that plugin, i.e. the option to install only security updates! It does not work well because of how Fedora updates work. But the option to install a specific update group from updates-testing usually does work, assuming you're up to date with the stable updates.)
Kevin Kofler
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 00:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On the assumption that I was in fact being naive, I tried:
sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude kernel* update k*
If you have the yum-security plugin installed, you can specifically request to install FEDORA-2012-3474 with a command-line switch.
Interesting. I'll give it a try.
poc
On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 16:31:18 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.
Not at all, I have been stung by this before so use other methods, or just have Rex's repo's enabled and not updates-testing, usually then yum update is fine :-)
Colin
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Writing this from FVWM (which is very functional and fast BTW :-)
As a matter of interest, can one run KDE and FVWM on the same host? I mean, choosing one or the other at login. Is there any overlap with dot files?
Does FVWM have its own mail reader?
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 11:22 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Writing this from FVWM (which is very functional and fast BTW :-)
As a matter of interest, can one run KDE and FVWM on the same host? I mean, choosing one or the other at login. Is there any overlap with dot files?
Well I did it so I guess it must be possible :-) I'm not aware of any conflict. FVWM seems to be more aligned with Gnome that KDE in general feel, if that makes a difference.
Does FVWM have its own mail reader?
The default is Thunderbird (and the default browser is Firefox). I don't know if there are other options for mail as I changed the settings to Evolution/Chrome.
I'm now back in KDE BTW.
pco