Kubuntu Hardy - 2 Error windows after login and no icons on desktop

[Nils Kassube]

On a Kubuntu Hardy machine with all updates an error window pop up after login. The window text is "Der Prozess für das Protokoll file wurde unerwarted beendet." which translates to "Process for protocol file aborted unexpectedly.". After clicking OK a second error window pops up with the text "Der Prozess für das Protokoll media wurde unerwarted beendet." which translates to "Process for protocol media aborted unexpectedly.".

All icons on the desktop are missing. If I copy one of the previously existing icons from the K-Menu to the desktop, a window asks if I want to rename the file or overwrite the existing file. If I select overwrite, all previously existing icons reappear.

[Nils Kassube (kassube)]

Additional information:

The problem exists on 2 similar machines with this hardware:
CPU: AMD geode LX800 / 500MHz
RAM: 256MB
Rather slow CF card instead of a hard disk.

On one machine I did some more experiments. If I reduce the resolution from 1600x1200 to 800x600 the problem disappears.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

Good evening,

I am wondering if this has improved since Hardy has released and if you are still having problems with no icons on the desktop after login?

Could you please update the status of this bug

THanks,

Jonathan

[Nils Kassube (kassube)]

The situation is unchanged. But here are some more details:

To get reproducible results I did a clean install on my machine, so I used the Kubuntu 8.04.1 desktop CD and I did an upgrade of all packages with the default repositories. Then I tested login and the error windows were there.

Next I enabled the hardy-backports repository and upgraded to KDE 3.5.10.
The problem was still there.

The caption of the error windows reads "Fehler - KDesktop" which
translates to "Error - KDesktop".

The problem seems to be related to the wallpaper size (pixel not kB) and downscaling of the wallpaper to the screen size (together with the low speed of the machine). The default wallpaper has an original size 1920x1440 while my screen size is 1600x1200. If I select another wallpaper the problem is gone. The other wallpapers coming with Kubuntu have a size of 1600x1200 or smaller. Now if I take one of my own pictures and scale it to 1600x1200 there is also no problem even if the original file is about 1.3MB. However if I scale the picture to 1604x1203 the problem is back independent from the file size.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Doesn't affect Intrepid due to the different way things work.