I just came home to discover an error as described above- My puter was shutdown when I returned home. On reboot, Kubuntu gets as far as the splashscreen, but then goes black on load of desktop. I confirmed that while the desktop isnt rendered, it is responding to key and mouse presses, i.e. it will accept Ctrl+Alt+Del, and selecting where I know shutdown to be will shutdown Kubuntu. It will even bring up the Application Launcher window but with no elements.
As in #248655, I enabled desktop effects shortly prior (within 12hrs) to abnormal shutdown and KDE errors.
I just came home to discover an error as described above- My puter was shutdown when I returned home. On reboot, Kubuntu gets as far as the splashscreen, but then goes black on load of desktop. I confirmed that while the desktop isnt rendered, it is responding to key and mouse presses, i.e. it will accept Ctrl+Alt+Del, and selecting where I know shutdown to be will shutdown Kubuntu. It will even bring up the Application Launcher window but with no elements.
As in #248655, I enabled desktop effects shortly prior (within 12hrs) to abnormal shutdown and KDE errors.
On ASUS F3Sa laptop, running KUbuntu 8.0.4