(Solved) Can't get desktop after DU

[hightime]

I just ran a du on my laptop. I probably last updated two or three weeks ago. Now I can't get to the KDE desktop. After login I get a cursor on a black screen and it never gets past that. Another odd thing is that in the drop-down menu on the login screen it only lists "Default Xsession". It's as if some critical part of KDE got wiped out, but which part?

[devil]

Some people had essential kde packages removed today. My guess is, that happened to you. dpkg.log will tell you.

greetz
devil

[hightime]

Looks like kde-plasma-desktop was removed. I reinstalled it and all is well again. Thanks.

[dibl]

I also lost plasma-desktop today, on one out of four KDE systems.  I did not see it go -- apt did not report packages to be removed, and it was quite a job of detective work to find out what was wrong with that system, because the fluxbox login worked, but KDE came up with an empty black screen.