[Bug 168495] New: Heavy bug in KDE kills KDE

[Hans]

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           Summary: Heavy bug in KDE kills KDE
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: hans.ullrich loop de


Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Bug description:

First of all: I cannot tell which application is involved, sorry !

When you want to save your settings of kde (I mean your "personal settings", 
the one, you save with the button "save settings" in the K-Menu), and you 
restart kde again, your settings are lost.

Worse, you loose all your virtual desktops, there is only one left. All 
windows lost their frames (looks similar to the windows, when you start 
compiz) and it is no more possible to move windows !

Deleting ~/.kde or ./kde4 does NOT help ! So be warned: Get your old ~/.kde 
and ~/.kde4 as backup, otherwise you crash your whole kde !!!

I could not find out, which part and files of KDE are responsible for this 
mess. 

It is the same, when you try this as the user "root". You will crash kde of 
user "root", too !

Again, if you want to find out what happens, be very, very careful and get 
your old kde-settings as backup. 

At the moment I can confirm this behaviour only on an amd64-system, as for 
normal users, for "root" and as well as for newly added users.