what does ls -l ~/.local/ return ?
_now_ it does return: $ ls -l .local/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 Nov 26 20:33 kaboom -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 1855 Apr 14 2009 screen-configurations.xml drwx------ 8 me me 4096 Nov 2 22:37 sharei had no chance but to let kaboom run its course -- i needed acces to my computer. but, as pointed out before, kaboom has been installed since september at least and never came up like that before.
$ dir /var/lib/dpkg/info/kaboom.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352 Sep 11 20:06 /var/lib/dpkg/info/kaboom.listwhat has triggered kaboom all of a sudden -- and why does X crash the moment i hit "Cancel"?