The symptoms sound very - i said - very similar. I'm not sure what I did to get it all working but after a day I got my system up and running again, I think I've been removing/move lot's of files in $HOME starting with dots and recalling kbuildsycoca4 again until it worked.
Following the progress on this one, keep up the sublime work! -- [Karmic] X crash due to xsetroot in startkde after recent update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526919 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp