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Description of problem:
1. I installed RH 8 from cd onto my laptop
2. Installed additional products & customized graphical environment
3. For a few days all went fine, all of a sudden kwin crashed with messages below
4. Since then, kwin crashes systematically after login into kde and the
panel etc. is loaded 

(kdebase-3.0.3-14)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start system, login to kde
2. await subsystems to be initialized (keyboard, sounds, panel, session,...)
3. when user interface starts to load : kwin crashes (and also everytime I try
to start it manually )
    

Actual Results:  see error mesages below

Expected Results:  normal startup of GUI, restore of previous session

Additional info:

(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 8192 (LWP 1512)]
0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#0  0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x4212a2d0 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2  0x40e1cc63 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x4062d1e5 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x414ffd90 in KWinInternal::RedHatClient::addClientButtons(QString const&,
bool) () from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so
#6  0x414ffa51 in
KWinInternal::RedHatClient::RedHatClient(KWinInternal::Workspace*, unsigned
long, QWidget*, char const*) ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so
#7  0x41502c9b in allocate () from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so
#8  0x412f91d6 in
KWinInternal::PluginMgr::allocateClient(KWinInternal::Workspace*, unsigned long,
bool) () from /usr/lib/kwin.so
#9  0x412cc411 in KWinInternal::Workspace::clientFactory(unsigned long) ()
   from /usr/lib/kwin.so
#10 0x412ce9b8 in KWinInternal::Workspace::workspaceEvent(_XEvent*) ()
   from /usr/lib/kwin.so
#11 0x412f307e in Application::x11EventFilter(_XEvent*) ()
   from /usr/lib/kwin.so
#12 0x40832bb6 in qt_x11EventFilter(_XEvent*) ()
   from /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#13 0x4083c827 in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent(_XEvent*) ()
   from /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#14 0x4083c52f in QApplication::processNextEvent(bool) ()
   from /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0x4089d280 in QApplication::enter_loop() ()
   from /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0x4083c02d in QApplication::exec() ()
   from /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#17 0x412f3487 in kdemain () from /usr/lib/kwin.so
#18 0x0804cb9f in strcpy ()
#19 0x0804d8bb in strcpy ()
#20 0x0804dd7c in strcpy ()
#21 0x0804eb40 in strcpy ()
#22 0x420158d4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6