KDE lost of settings: "State" field corrupted in all rc files

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On 07/22/12 15:46, Maxime. Haselbauer wrote:
> Hi, Kubuntu 12.04 Kde 4.8.4 32 bit
>
> Interesting thing this morning:
> I power up my compute and almost every programm open as if KDE would 
> be freshly installed and it  would be the first time I open the programm.
> Needless to say, there was no update yesterday and ervything worked 
> fine when I shut down the computer yesterday evening
>
> Very annoying because it means all your personal settings are lost....
> in a short list
>
> Background color of kde
> Activities
> Amarok collection
>
>     The podcast list
>
>     All id3 tags you have modified within amarok
>
>     Amarok internal database playlist
>
>     Amarok .xspf saved playlist
>
> Kdevelop settinggs ....
> All Akregator podcasts (although, there IS a feeds.opml file in 
> ~/.kde/share/apps/akregator   .... which DOES contain all RSS url I 
> had ...)
> Kmail settings (all your accounts)
>
> etc...
>
>
> So, it looks like it is not reading all rc configuration files (those 
> stored in ~/.kde/share/config) because all information it lacks are 
> usually given in those files
>
> Hence I open a couple of rc files and I find an interesting thing:
> In each of them, under the [Mainwindow] section there ist something like
>
> State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAwAAAAAAAAE4AAAB1PwCAAAAAfsAAAAOAE0AbwBkAGUA[...]  I 
> spare you the rest, this continue like that for long
>
> I guess this is not the true state... but a corrupted field. 
> Interesting is that it looks corrupted for all rc files I have open so 
> far, even those of programm that I did not open for a while now.
>
> Anyone know something about where it comes from and how to solve it ?
>
> Regards
> Maxime Haselbauer
>
>
>
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Sounds like a HDD problem. Did you check using smartctl?
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