Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages I followed the instructions to upgrade to KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu 9.04 and rebooted. Upon login, I was stuck at a screen with the KDM desktop background, a thin, shifted slice of a desktop, panel and Plasma 'cashew' at the top left, and a panel at the bottom. The bottom panel's systray was empty. Clicking items in the panel (e.g., K menu, trash icon, etc.) caused pop-ups to appear at the upper left side, near the broken-looking view of a desktop. Following the suggestion of folks in #kde on irc.freenode.net, I moved my ~/.kde out of the way and logged back in. It just hung with the KDM background. I zapped (Ctrl+Alt+Bksp) X and logged in again. This time, I got the default KDE background, but also shifted to one side, wrapping around. A thin checkerboard appears down most of the left-of-middle of the screen. (I will attach a screenshot.) I see no panel. At this point, I'm going to try and downgrade back to KDE 4.2.x, since it was working sufficiently well. Thanks and good luck!
Created attachment 35890 [details] Screenshot of the broken-looking desktop after upgrading to KDE 4.3 and moving ~/.kde out of the way
Have you tried upgrading to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10? It uses KDE 4.3.2, and I don't observe this problem there. Also, can you specify (link) which directions you followed to do the upgrade - perhaps they were faulty.
Apologies. I forget precisely what I did, but I got it working soon after reporting the bug, and apparently forgot to add a comment here and close it. Checking logs of my own conversation on #kde on irc.freenode.net from back in August, it looks like I simply needed to do a number of apt-get update/upgrade cycles and it eventually 'caught up' and began working right. Closing this as resolved/invalid. Thanks!