Desktop settings and configuration disappeared (repeatedly)

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Michael Bona wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am using Kubuntu 10.04 with KDE 4.4.2.
> 
> I have just had my desktop settings disappear (again). What I mean
> is that after logging in I do not see me desktop with my panels,
> icons, widgets etc. as set up by ME but rather the standard
> desktop a new user might see.
> 
> This first happened after a distribution update from 8.10 to 9.04
> (I think) then again on 9.10 to 10.04 and now for the first after
> a cold reset (push the reset button).

Have you ever considered a backup? From this description, it seems 
like the config files were corrupted which can happen after a dirty 
shutdown or when you run out of disk space...

  --Reinhold