Hello John, I can confirm this bug with the Kubuntu 6.10 Beta Desktop CD.
>From ~/.xsession-errors: [...] kdesktop: WARNING: Can't open /home/ubuntu/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml kdesktop: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc KCrash: Application 'kdesktop' crashing... DCOP aborting while waiting for answer from 'klauncher' DCOPServer::DCOPReply for unknown connection. [...] ** Attachment added: "xsession-errors, Xorg.0.log, dmesg" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4666546/logs.zip -- kdesktop crashes on startup of edgy beta https://launchpad.net/bugs/63118 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
