On 03/15/2010 07:06 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 15 March 2010 12:43:27 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/10/2010 01:51 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
However, if your sycoca was broken, I'd expect you to be telling me that your K menu wasn't working and that apps weren't finding their plugins.
Will, you were right - my menus are gone....
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/kde/MenuEmpty.jpg
I rarely use it so I guess I didn't notice until now. so your sycoca idea may be gaining traction. What do I check for it?
As I mentioned before,
1) check that /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER is writeable, not full, and that the file ksyscoca exists and is not empty in that dir
07:57 alchemy:/var/tmp/kdecache-david> l total 7640 drwx------ 10 david users 4096 2010-03-15 07:41 ./ drwxrwxrwt 25 root root 4096 2010-03-15 06:51 ../ drwx------ 2 david users 4096 2009-12-29 18:13 background/ drwx------ 2 david dcr 4096 2010-02-10 12:10 favicons/ drwx------ 2 david dcr 4096 2009-12-20 17:31 help/ drwx------ 4 david dcr 32768 2010-03-15 06:40 http/ drwx------ 2 david users 4096 2010-03-15 07:34 kpc/ drwx------ 2 david users 4096 2010-02-10 01:27 ksplashx/ drwx------ 2 david dcr 4096 2010-02-08 03:54 libphonon/ drwx------ 4 david dcr 4096 2009-12-26 14:15 plasma-wallpapers/ -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 3359765 2010-03-15 07:34 ksycoca -rw------- 1 david dcr 4130818 2010-03-15 07:41 ksycoca4 -rw-r--r-- 1 david users 1156 2010-03-15 07:41 ksycoca4stamp -rw------- 1 david dcr 0 2010-01-29 04:15 ksycoca4T27341.new -rw-r--r-- 1 david users 1242 2010-03-15 07:34 ksycocastamp -rw------- 1 david dcr 20183 2010-01-28 02:58 plasma-svgelements-Arezzo -rw------- 1 david dcr 1824 2010-03-10 20:40 plasma-svgelements-Classic -rw------- 1 david dcr 16552 2010-01-28 03:00 plasma-svgelements-Clean-Blend -rw------- 1 david dcr 22436 2010-03-08 22:04 plasma-svgelements-default -rw------- 1 david dcr 15969 2010-01-28 03:01 plasma-svgelements-Glassified -rw------- 1 david dcr 694 2010-01-28 03:01 plasma-svgelements-Glaze -rw------- 1 david dcr 15242 2010-02-26 22:17 plasma-svgelements-neon-plasma-glow-by-FRUiT -rw------- 1 david dcr 1166 2010-01-28 03:02 plasma-svgelements-Nitro -rw------- 1 david dcr 3750 2010-01-28 03:02 plasma-svgelements-oxygen -rw------- 1 david dcr 17179 2010-01-28 03:02 plasma-svgelements-Oxyglass -rw------- 1 david dcr 16635 2010-01-28 03:03 plasma-svgelements-Oxyzone -rw------- 1 david dcr 15466 2010-02-26 22:18 plasma-svgelements-seamless -rw------- 1 david dcr 1775 2010-03-10 20:39 plasma-svgelements-Shadowport -rw------- 1 david dcr 12906 2010-03-08 22:04 plasma-svgelements-slim-glow -rw------- 1 david dcr 801 2010-03-08 22:03 plasma-svgelements-Svista -rw------- 1 david dcr 16474 2010-03-08 20:31 plasma-svgelements-Tibanna -rw------- 1 david dcr 1035 2010-03-08 22:03 plasma-svgelements-tragedy -rw------- 1 david dcr 17742 2010-03-08 22:03 plasma-svgelements-Wave 07:57 alchemy:/var/tmp/kdecache-david> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 20G 17G 2.7G 86% / udev 1.9G 132K 1.9G 1% /dev /dev/sda7 486G 93G 369G 21% /home /dev/sda2 81G 37G 44G 46% /windows
2) run kbuildsycoca --noincremental to recreate ksycoca
ran both kbuildsycoca --noincremental and kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental per: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/kde-menu.html still nothing -- nada :-( I put the output from kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/kde3/kbuildsycoca4-noimcremental.txt.bz2 Looking as ksycoca and ksycoca4 above, there should be "tons" of stuff in my menu: -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 3359765 2010-03-15 07:34 ksycoca -rw------- 1 david dcr 4130818 2010-03-15 07:41 ksycoca4 I'm stumped. I also created a new user to test and it has the same problem. What does the master suggest next? (no, punting isn't an options ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org