I can confirm this. And as I had no idea what is going I have to thank you for posting this workaround.

All I could do was laugh about cinnamon's error message

Apr 10 00:18:09 obsidian cinnamon-session[849]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

After that it dumped the core. Not much information about the actual error.

How did you find out what happened?