I've upgrated Kde 3.5.2 to kde 3.5.3 So The message in syslog disapear and kdm doesn't crash anymore. tu upgrade, juts put these lines in "/etc/apt/sources.list": deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-353 dapper main -- kdm crash due to corrupted ~/.face.icon file https://launchpad.net/bugs/37529