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Latest kdebase in intrepid broke all KDE apps

Bug #254590 reported by Brian Rogers on 2008-08-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #254577: kdebase-runtime-data-common 4.1.0-0ubuntu2 completely breaks KDE. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kdebase (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdebase

With the runtime packages from version 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu2 of kdebase, running any KDE apps (at least konsole, kate, korgac, and korganizer) within the gnome environment just results in that application using 100% CPU time and never appearing.

The following reliably fixes the problem:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives && sudo dpkg -i kdebase-runtime*4.1.0*ubuntu1*.deb

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kalyan (kallu-be) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Conformed .. Same thing happened with me after today's update and installing the fix proposed works.

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Javier Noval (javiernoval) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Confirmed here too. Not only applications fail to start, KDM doesn't work either (it's permanently stuck in a black screen with the hourglass cursor).

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Marcus Asshauer (mcas) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 254577, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.