Comment 2 for bug 1235499

Just thought of the following which might be of help:

I did notice corruption of ~/.local

Chain of events:

- video & sound from youtube video working
- apt-get update|upgrade|dist-upgrade|autoremove
- video worked, sound from video muted, other system sounds OK
- reboot
- unable to log to KDE GUI
- removed ~/.local/ (contents is backed up)
- log in to KDE
- ~/.local was automatically recreated