Can't log in after installing KDE 4.2

[Martin]

First off, I already submitted this bug to KDE, and they said I should put it here because it was packaging-related.

I just upgraded my Kubuntu Intrepid to KDE 4.2, and ended up being unable to log in or do anything else.

When upgrading, I followed the instructions for Kubuntu 8.10 in the release note kubuntu.org: Towards the end of the Adept upgrade process, I was asked to supply a new MySQL root password, and whether I wanted to keep or replace my old kdmrc file (I chose to replace it). After the upgrade was done I tried to log out, but that wouldn't work. I hit ctrl+alt+backspace, and the Alt+E to restart X.

From that point on, I couldn't log in to KDE anymore. The login screen would accept my user and pass, but then I'd only get a background image and a mouse cursor and it stayed that way. Reboot didn't help either.

I could make it work in this way, after several hours of googling and such: I ran an apt-get update+upgrade from the command line, which installed kdebase-workspace-data. Then I installed kubuntu-desktop, which in turn also installed kdebase-workspace-bin. After that KDE 4.2 started normally.

I began the upgrade somewhere around 20:00 GMT, Jan 28. Just mentioning it because somebody on the Ubuntu Forums said it might have been a freak coincidence with packages just having been uploaded to the repository while I was upgrading.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

There were some bugs in the packaging that caused some file conflicts, but those have been fixed now.