A further comment on my anti-patch. The "On Login" session setting doesn't actually matter, the default just makes it less likely that this bug will occure. With the patch applied to startkde this bug is also reproducable under the default settings.
** Attachment added: "Patch to startkde to make race condition more obvious" http://librarian.launchpad.net/3004032/startkde_cheat_race.diff -- ksplash hangs on initializing system services sometimes if "Start with an empty session" is enabled https://launchpad.net/bugs/46682 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
