I believe it's just a problem with non-US languages. I had the same problem and fixed it with sudo qt-language-select --mode select
That will change the language system-wide without having to remove any packages. I found it on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/191327 Thanks, John On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- John Greep http://www.johngreep.com _______________________________________________ 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
