Problems after updates - pure speculation

[Anne Wilson]

A bunch of kde updates was installed on this laptop today, and again I had 
problems with kdepim.  KMail wouldn't start, korganizer refused to save to my 
server-based calendar.  Everything is working again now, but it took 3 cold 
boots to get to this stage.

Watching the bootup procedures each time I got the impression that something 
isn't starting at it's correct place in the sequence, thereby interfering with 
my LAN-based transactions.  Is it possible?  Are there any checks I could put 
in place for another time?

Anne