[kde-freebsd] misbehaving KDE

[Andrew Johnson]

Any advice on what is not communicating or how it might be fixed would be most 
welcomed.
 I foolishly updated my workstation last week...
  KDE 4.8.4 on FreeBSD 9.1 Stable
  
 KDM starts up
  the Desktop starts
   it starts up the applications that had been running at the last log-off

 But generally speaking if I press the 'Application Launch Menu' it hangs for 
a minute or two before responding, it is unable to start any other KDE 
application, and if I stop any of the running KDE apps then I can not re-start 
them. And the log-off options don't work. Using konsole which was running has 
the same effect

e.g.
% ./kate
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. 
Application may misbehave.
^C
% ./ktimer
^C
% ./kbattleship
^C
% ./okular
^C

% ps ax | grep dbus
1900 ??  Ss     1:33.09 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
2200 ??  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session --
autolaunch 313227c3177d73da658f3e6000002ae0
2201 ??  Ss     0:00.94 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --
print-address 7 --session
2388 ??  S      0:42.52 /usr/local/kde4/bin/nspluginviewer -dbusservice 
org.kde.nspluginviewer-2270
2893  0  S+     0:00.00 grep dbus

% ps ax | grep akonadi
2245 ??  I      0:00.48 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_control
2247 ??  I      0:00.34 akonadiserver
2252 ??  I      0:02.59 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --defaults-
file=/home/andrew/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf --
datadir=/home/andrew/.local/share
2335 ??  I      0:00.18 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_contacts_resource --
identifier akonadi_contacts_resource_0
2336 ??  I      0:00.21 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_ical_resource --identifier 
akonadi_ical_resource_0
2337 ??  I      0:00.19 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_kabc_resource --identifier 
akonadi_kabc_resource_0
2338 ??  I      0:00.19 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_maildir_resource --
identifier akonadi_maildir_resource_0
2339 ??  I      0:00.19 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent --
identifier akonadi_maildispatcher_agent
2340 ??  I      0:00.19 /usr/local/kde4/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder --
identifier akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder
2895  0  S+     0:00.00 grep akonadi