Update caused problems with klauncher

[tommcdo]

Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Related to klauncher and dcopserver

After installing today's updates (26 February 2008 -- language translation updates), logging in to the KDE desktop is no longer possible. It gets to "Initializing system services", and then returns to the login screen.

Here is a brief summary of events:

- Installed language translation updates (not sure of exact package names, also not sure how to obtain this information)
- Shortly after, would receive error when trying to launch applications: "KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP"
- After restarting X and rebooting, could not log in to KDE (as described above).

This happened on two machines (one desktop, one laptop). It is still possible to log in to a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1, etc), just not into KDE.

If anyone knows how to obtain a list of recently updated packages (through aptitude or apt-get), please let me know so I can provide further details.

[tommcdo (tommcdo)]

I have solved the problem by uninstalling the packages
language-pack-kde-en
language-pack-kde-en-base

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!