I've got a strange problem. This morning, when I logged in through kdm, kde started up, but the background was (still is) a neutral beige instead of the wallpaper I've been using for months. Also, no desktop icons show up, and no menus show up when I click on the desktop area (they should, shouldn't they?)
I've opened up konqueror, and hit the "Desktop" icon, which shows everything that should be ON my desktop. Looking at the properties for that icon, it says that the last time the directory was modified, accessed and created was yesterday at the time I logged off yesterday. The rest of my home directory shows normal information like a creation date that comes many days/weeks/months before the last accessed or modified. That's my only clue. I'm running potato, and using all but the "optional" section from kde.rap.ucar.edu. The only change I can recall making yesterday, is removing that optional section from my sources.list file, and removing and re-installing ssh, so that it's version would match my firewall's ssh version. Re-adding that section and doing an "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only" gives me the version of ssh that I replaced yesterday, and nothing else. I've tried stopping kdm and removing all of the /tmp files created by kde, but that had no affect. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.