[Konsole-devel] Bug#38096: date/time format causes crash of sorts

[Stephan Binner]

I should ask at last what exact date & time format strings you enter. :-)

>The answer to one of your trials--the one where you asked if I
>could get a konsole by Alt F2 and then konsole &-- is NO. 

I asked you to get a xterm with Alt F2 and start Konsole from there.

> I tested your questions and am now without the use of my root on KDE
> desktop once again. The only way I found to recover is tto make an
> entirely new system with the packages all replaced. Some nuisance.

You should not work or run KDE as root! There is no need to reinstall sth.

> Do you have any suggestions to recover in a simpler manner. And please
> don't ask for anymore trials--it costs me too much time to rebuild.

Delete ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals which contains date & time format.

> As for other problems- I find the prescan window for xscan also 
> performs the vanishing act after invoking xsane.

This is no KDE problem.