Thanks. Installing the package 'plasma-desktop' got my karmic install half-way working.
The crash reports were then pointing to the ruby interpreter. Rather than hunting down the particular plasmoid/ruby script that was causing the crash I reset my desktop configuration by removing $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc -- KDE-4.4 upgrade causes desktop crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520978 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
