Hi everyone,
I just had this rather troubling problem and eventually found a solution I thought would be useful as I think it will affect anyone with Swiftfox (and possibly other programs) installed who is upgrading to KDE 4.0.2.
You know you have this problem if you see the crash manager report Kbuildsycoca has crashed as adept configures the recent package upgrades. When you restart you can still log into KDE3 but not KDE4, which just gives many Kbuildsycoca crashes but no desktop.
The culprit is incorrectly formed .desktop files in /usr/share/applications
The most common one seems to be Swiftfox.desktop
You can find out which files are the problem with:
and
You can either modify or delete these files and the KDE4 should be able to start again (sometimes with still with a Kbuildsycoca error or two), although I can't say exactly what other consequences there maybe of deleting these shortcuts. You can see the various bug reports for yourself though at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...bs/+bug/199145
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158779
I just had this rather troubling problem and eventually found a solution I thought would be useful as I think it will affect anyone with Swiftfox (and possibly other programs) installed who is upgrading to KDE 4.0.2.
You know you have this problem if you see the crash manager report Kbuildsycoca has crashed as adept configures the recent package upgrades. When you restart you can still log into KDE3 but not KDE4, which just gives many Kbuildsycoca crashes but no desktop.
The culprit is incorrectly formed .desktop files in /usr/share/applications
The most common one seems to be Swiftfox.desktop
You can find out which files are the problem with:
Code:
sudo update-desktop-database -v 2>&1 | grep invalid
Code:
sudo update-desktop-database -v | grep lacks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...bs/+bug/199145
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158779