I updated KDE 4.2 from the Factory repo tonight (updated to 4.2.0-73.2, I don’t remember what revision I was on before, but it was about a week old).
After updating, I went to log out, but nothing happened after confirming my desire to do so. I restarted X, logged in, and after opening up one or two applications, KDE exhibited the same behavior. Clicking on icons or apps off launder or anything on kicker… all yielded no results. The only thing that did work, was hitting Alt-F2 for the run box, then I could start NON-KDE apps, KDE apps still did nothing.
I restarted X again, and opened Konsole before KDE stopped responding again. Requesting a process list showed a ton of defunct processes (mostly nepomukserver and nepomukservices, but also 1 for each app I had starting in the tray which is just KMix and KCheckGMail).
I’d downgrade back out, but not sure what I would downgrade to since the previous revision isn’t up there of course.
Default update problem with KDE. By deleting you .kde4 folder in you home directory (you’ll lose all KDE4 settings - but it isn’t matter, you’ll also lose the most settings with an simple update also). So after deleting this folder just log back in, and everything should be OK.
Good luck.
I tried as you suggested and even tried with a brand new user and sadly this did not fix me. The only way I can get KDE to perform normally is to delete the ksmserverrc file in ~/.kde4/share/config before every login.
All fixed! It actually was not a dependency issue, lol.
I really appreciate peoples interest in helping… thank you.
I FIXED IT! It was the last thing I thought to try, but at the same time that I patched, updated, etc… I also updated my nvidia driver. In a final attempt to fix things, I downgraded to the second most resent (which has actually become the latest Stable release again, they marked the newer one as a Pre-Release since yesterday).
also). So after deleting this folder just log back in, and everything should be OK.