Did an update, now Kubuntu can't log in

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello all,

After doing a recent automated update, a current Kubuntu system isn't
letting me log in. KDE gets to the second icon (the gears) and then the
x server just spontaneously dies and restarts.

Here is are the last lines of .xsession-errors :

kdecore (KLocale): WARNING: Definition of PluralForm is none of
NoPlural/TwoForms/French/OneTwoRest/Russian/Polish/Slovenian/Lithuanian/Czech/Slovak/Arabic/Balcan/Macedonian/Gaeilge/Maltese:
Definition of PluralForm - to be set by the translator of kdelibs.po
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 6375, errno = 0
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Any suggestions? Did anyone else get bitten by this? I recall that the
English language packs were recently upgraded.

Thanks!

- Evan