Removing the files from /tmp didn't help. Running ksyscoca gives:[code:1]$ kbuildsycoca
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP.
kbuildsycoca running...
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
[/code:1] and then nothing. It appears to be stuck in a loop using all CPU:[code:1]$ top -b -n 1
top - 16:18:50 up 7 min, 3 users, load average: 1.05, 0.66, 0.30
Tasks: 58 total, 2 running, 56 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 56.4% us, 2.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 33.8% id, 7.6% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515832k total, 271324k used, 244508k free, 14736k buffers
Swap: 1052216k total, 0k used, 1052216k free, 161840k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1739 mk 25 0 23532 8300 22m R 99.0 1.6 3:52.74 kdeinit
(...)
$ ps x
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1728 pts/2 S 0:00 kbuildsycoca
1729 pts/2 S 0:00 /usr/bin/kdeinit --suicide
1730 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: Starting up...
1733 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
1735 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
1736 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kded
1737 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kded
1739 ? R 4:48 kdeinit: kbuildsycoca --incremental --checkstamps
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