Comment 1 for bug 184448

Hi everybody,

I guess I have the same issue here. Got a new machine w/ Ubuntu preinstalled (from Dell :-) and obviously wanted to change the host name. Did so directly in /etc/hostname (where else?).

After some more time (and several reboots), I installed the KDE4 packages available from:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main

I'm having Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) obviously. Installation went fine.

When I try to login from GDM I always get the same error upon login:
- KDE4 splash screen starts
- Upon the fourth (or so) icon, I get a crash report behind the splash screen
- Clicking into the splash closes it
- The crash report informs me that ksmserver crashed
- Closing the crash report, logs me out again and brings me back to GDM

Any ideas? Help is greatly appreciated!

For your info:
I'm running on a Dell XPS M1330 w/ intel x3100 graphics card ("Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"). Running the "intel" driver.

My hostname was something like "dell-laptop" or so and I changed it to "bartimäus" (note the umlaut).

ciao, daniel :-)