[kubuntu] 12.10 liveDVD any key in konsole forces plasma password screen

[James Walters]

Kubuntu LiveDVD downloaded from an approved mirror and burned to DVD. sha256sum matches for ISO and check media reports no issues.

After executing "Try Kubuntu" and finally getting to the desktop, Konsole opens, but upon pressing any key in the console window, X (or KDE?) seems to crash, showing me the text bootup screen for a few seconds and then some sort of Plasma screen requiring me to enter a password.

The only way to get a working command line is to use one of X's text console screens.

Very bizarre and I can't believe that I am either the only one to experience this or the first one to report it.

Here is the contents of /var/log/apport.log:
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:46 2012: called for pid 4682, signal 6, core limit 4294967295
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:46 2012: executable: /usr/bin/Xorg (command line "/usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch")
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:46 2012: is_closing_session(): no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in environment
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:51 2012: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:51 2012: writing core dump to /etc/X11/core (limit: 4398046510080)
ERROR: apport (pid 5011) Sun Oct 28 21:06:54 2012: writing core dump /etc/X11/core of size 52105216

Here's a possibly relevant lines from /var/log/syslog:
Oct 28 21:06:12 kubuntu org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Oct 28 21:06:12 kubuntu dbus[1325]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'

Nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I can reproduce this at will so please advise what else may be needed.

[James Walters (x5q9b8n384)]

Trying to do the procedure outlined in http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?60582-No-Konsole-startup-12-10 via Dolphin causes the same crash upon first keypress in the Dolphin console, so no hope of getting any more information.

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[James Walters (x5q9b8n384)]

This looks like a konsole issue as that is what seems to crash....

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported when using a currently supported release of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.