Well it turns out that there is a way to cancel. I did not recognize
that the little arrow pointing to the line was clickable or that if
clicked it would open a dialog with more information, including the stop
button. This can be closed as "befuddled user error".
** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33001384/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33001385/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33001386/ProcStatus.txt
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Need a