[Bug 80444] Re: kcontrol is empty

Bogdan Butnaru bogdanb+launchpad at gmail.com
Sat Feb 3 11:55:27 UTC 2007


OK, I got a suggestion on a forum --
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=336229 -- and with a bit of
twiddling I got kcontrol to show the menus.

I don't know what caused it. I suspect a malformed package or some
conflict, I don't know. This machine was updated using apt-get from
dapper through edgy to feisty, so I wouldn't be surprised if the package
manager somehow got confused. (It happened before.)

According to the suggestion, I was supposed to have a file
/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu on my system.
After a bit of searching, I realized on my system there was
/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu/kde-
essential.menu (the file was in a same-named directory). I renamed the
directory and moved the file in its stead, and now kcontrol works.

By works I mean it shows the various applets and they seem to do stuff.
I've still got the problem with the fonts, but I'll file a different bug
for that.

If anyone wants to try and diagnose the issue with kcontrol -- it seems
it happened to others, too -- let me know. I can post an archive with
the /etc/xdg/menus/ directory and whatever other info you might need.

By the way, I noticed there's also a file called "kde-essential.menu
.dpkg-new" that's identical to the file I needed. I suppose the package
manager tried to create it and couldn't because of the directory of the
same name.

I don't know enough of apt's internals to trace the issue to the source,
but I'm quite sure now it's an update issue. If you need anything, don't
hesitate to ask.

-- 
kcontrol is empty
https://launchpad.net/bugs/80444




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