I just did an update to my Kubuntu and KDE failed after that. The problem is in the package "language-pack-kde-en-base". If you haven't already done so, I would suggest waiting at least few days before you update this package.
The symptoms I saw: - after the update, I started getting intermittent problems with the KIO slaves. Doing a fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] would fail, yet I could go into a console and ssh to the box just fine with the same credentials. - Restarted X. KDE fails to start. It would get the the second icon "starting system services", then just return me to the login screen. There is a thread of the problem on the Ubuntu Forums here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=695801 And the fix seems to be sudo apt-get install language-pack-kde-en=1:7.10+20071120 language-pack-kde-en-base=1:7.10+20071012 Except this failed for me, I had to change it like so: sudo apt-get install language-pack-kde-en language-pack-kde-en-base=1:7.10+20071012 basically this just rolls back the installed version of language-pack-kde-en-base. Which means it'll nag you to update that package. Ignore it for a few days - hopefully all gets sorted out soon. There is an alternate fix of setting the language environment variable, but this would need to be set on each login, or added to your .bashrc. I'd rather not have to remember a "tweak" just to get KDE running.. :) Hope this helps someone avoid the same issues. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
