Plasma starting crashing on launch

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

I invoked the nuclear option but no solution. I reinstalled 8.10 and after applying all the updates the problem re-appeared (although I left my home directory intact). Apparently something in the current kde 4.2 packages is borked. 

So unless some brave soul wants to try the kde 4.2.2 update in 3 weeks, we (I) will have to wait until Jaunty is released in 6 weeks. 

P 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: pkaplan1 at comcast.net 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Cc: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:35:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Plasma starting crashing on launch 


In the last 24 hours something happened to my 8.10 system running kde 4.2.1. 
Whenever I login I get an error that plasma has crashed. All I see is a blank desktop. I can run apps from krunner, but no panels, cashews, plasmoids or right-clicking. 

Backtrace shows nothing. Replacing ~/.kde doesn't help. Logging in as a different user doesn't help 

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it due to a rogue package upgrade? 

Any thoughts on fixing other than reinstalling 8.10? 

TIA 
Paul 

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