Comment 7 for bug 434390

After leaving synaptic running for 24 hours, I logged into my desktop, and there are like 100 stacked kpackagekit error messages. The error messages were so much that the window manager disabled composite functionality. After closing all the windows, my desktop is unusable, it basically left me with nothing to do but reboot. I guess I could have restarted X.org from a ssh session, as I have the default ctl+alt+backspace disabled. Luckily alt+F2 worked and allowed me to issue a reboot command, which allowed me to restart the window manager without a full reboot.

This has to be the worst error handling I have ever seen, in any system (cept maybe the blue screen of death), and I think it is more than just a problem with kpackagekit. Instead of a single error console-like window to display errors, there are windows that get stacked off the screen, eventually consuming the system or window manager memory. This should NEVER happen, error messages are error messages, and should not allow a denial of service to the window manager.

Please escalate this to the KDE team, or who ever needs to know.