Bug#492610: Etch'n'half & KDE login: The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

Package: kdesktop
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2
Severity: normal

I just started to get error messages at KDE login. Two popup windows appear
with the following errors:

    [Window title: KDesktop error]
    The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly
    The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly

Also, the desktop has no icons anymore even though my ~/Desktop/
directory and it's content still exists.

I'm using Debian 4.0 (Etch) and have changed nothing but the kernel:
I just updated from Etch's original kernel 2.6.18 to
2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686. I still have both kernels installed and it's
clear that the bug appears only with the 2.6.24 version, always.

There are similar reports in the KDE bug tracking system and Ubuntu's
launchpad:

    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132587
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/70240

According to those and my Google searches quite many people have
experienced the same issue but nobody seems to really know what is it
about.

I hope this does not exist in Lenny...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kdesktop depends on:
ii  eject             2.1.4-3                ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  kdebase-bin       4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdelibs4c2a       4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libart-2.0-2      2.3.17-1               Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2         1.8-4                  The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6             2.3.6.ds1-13etch7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1    2.4.2-1.2              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6      2.2.1-5+etch2          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1           1:4.1.1-21             GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [ 6.5.1-0.6              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [lib 6.5.1-0.6              The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libice6           1:1.0.1-2              X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11          0.6.5-1                GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62         6b-13                  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkonq4          4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libpng12-0        1.2.15~beta5-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt         3:3.3.7-4etch2         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6            1:1.0.1-3              X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6        4.1.1-21               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6          2:1.0.3-7              X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6           1:1.0.1-2              X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1       1.1.7-4                X cursor management library
ii  libxext6          1:1.0.1-2              X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2           2.1.8.2-8              FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6            1:1.0.1-4              X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1      1:1.0.1-4.1            X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2        2:1.1.0.2-5            X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1       1:0.9.1-3              X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1           1:1.1.0-1              X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxt6            1:1.0.2-2              X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxxf86misc1     1:1.0.1-2              X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3-13             compression library - runtime

kdesktop recommends no packages.

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