After some more debugging (trying applications one by one) I found the culprit: pidgin
ksmserver works fine until I launch pidgin, then it gets stuck, with the symptoms described above. Running "/usr/bin/env -u SESSION_MANAGER pidgin" instead of "pidgin" works fine and does not create problems in the system. -- ksmserver stops answering on the SESSION_MANAGER socket https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339875 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
