KDE desconfiguration on upgrade of kdelibs4

[Daniel Estévez Sánchez]

Recently, new packages of kdelibs4 have gone into the hoary-security repository (version 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1).
On upgrading this packages my system gets desconfigured. The kde style changes from default lipstik to plastik
and kubuntu kde specific configurations (such as opening new konquerors in tabs) disappear. It seems that the
kde configuration goes back to plain kde. For example, KPersonalizer will appear to new user, instead of
jumping into the already configured kubuntu default desktop.

kdelibs4-data can be safefully upgraded, but upgrading all the other kdelibs4 packages will result in
desconfiguration. I've also noted that when configuring kdelibs-data (both the old version and the new), it
tries to step into a file owned by knetworkconf, so knetworkconf must be uninstalled before kdelibs-data
reinstallation or upgrade.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Do you have the file /etc/kderc ?

[Daniel Estévez Sánchez (genghis-khan)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you have the file /etc/kderc ?
>

Yes. Its contents are:
---------
[Directories]
userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile

[Directories-default]
prefixes=/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/
----------

But now my system is working as before because I purged and installed the old versions. ¿Do you mean that if I upgrade now
and put that kderc the sistem will work with the Kubuntu configuration?

[Daniel Frein (danielfrein)]

/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdelibs4.preinst deletes /etc/kdmrc: in the upgrade section of the preinst
script there is a "rm -f /etc/kderc"
(see also bug 16337)

[Andreas Mueller (amu)]

removed it from preinstall for breezy.

[Andreas Mueller (amu)]

build was fine

buildlog:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/k/kdelibs/4:3.4.0-0ubuntu6/