Comment 52 for bug 358533

This bug is still here in 4.6, took a lot to track down until somebody on the opensuse-kde list pointed me here.
In my case the vista machine I've mounted cifs shares from shuts down and the kick off menu becomes unusable. I click, it opens but from then on the panel and all it's widgets freeze, after about 30 secs the kickoff retracts and the panel becomes usable but I can only run apps from the "run command" or command line. The kick off menu is unusable until I unmount the shares as root.
Anything I can gdb?
This should be easily reproducible though.