Weird! I use several fully updated KDE3.5 Jaunty systems and have not experienced this issue. Those updates aren't even KDE packages.
Is it possible that any system files got corrupted somehow (ailing hardware, recent "hard" power off, etc.)? KDE3.5 stresses certain graphics and system routines that Gnome may not even use.
Tim
got prompted by a update. after i ran it. KDE 3.5 has a hard lockup once desktop shows and begins to load the right side applets (gnome is uneffected)
copy of the upgrade in console
root@nsa-985723:/home/ddog# apt-get update Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Translation-en_US Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-en_US Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Translation-en_US Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Sources Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Sources Reading package lists... Done root@nsa-985723:/home/ddog# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: dnsmasq-base libnss3-1d 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1300kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main dnsmasq-base 2.47-3ubuntu0.1 [222kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main libnss3-1d 3.12.3.1-0ubuntu0.9.04.2 [1078kB] Fetched 1300kB in 1s (675kB/s) (Reading database ... 160551 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dnsmasq-base 2.47-3 (using .../dnsmasq-base_2.47-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dnsmasq-base ... Preparing to replace libnss3-1d 3.12.3.1-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 (using .../libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0ubuntu0.9.04.2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libnss3-1d ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dnsmasq-base (2.47-3ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up libnss3-1d (3.12.3.1-0ubuntu0.9.04.2) ...
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