On 03/10/2010 01:51 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 00:41:27 David C. Rankin wrote:
Will, Dotan, All,
On my 11.0 kde3 install, all control panel apps disappeared a few weeks ago and haven't returned. I have made a number of attempts to find out why and tried all the suggestions from the last thread, but still no joy. Here is what I see when I open kcontrol or type 'kcmshell --list':
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http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/kde3/controlPanelEmpty.jpg
What logs can I look at, what package can I check or what test can I run to find out what's happening and hopefully make the little guys jump back into kcontrol?
Try running kbuildsycoca --noincremental. This rebuilds the cache of all the .desktop files on your system, including those that define the kcontrol tree.
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.
Also, check that /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER is writeable.
HTH
Will
Thank you for your help Will! But for some reason we are still shooting blanks :-( Below is the output and all information from the checks you suggested, but alas, no control panel modules have re-appeared. Which packages should I remove/reinstall to try and get them back? 02:15 alchemy:~> kbuildsycoca --noincremental kbuildsycoca running... 02:16 alchemy:~> l /var/tmp total 128 drwxrwxrwt 25 root root 4096 2010-03-14 05:30 ./ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2010-02-11 08:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-19 08:56 AP_0x00000001/ drwx------ 10 david users 4096 2010-03-15 02:16 kdecache-david/ drwx------ 9 dcrta dcr 4096 2010-02-09 22:34 kdecache-dcrta/ drwx------ 8 gnome dcr 4096 2010-02-27 04:17 kdecache-gnome/ drwx------ 10 root root 4096 2010-03-09 10:08 kdecache-root/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-24 01:38 sawfish-1.3.5.3-build/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2008-06-06 17:20 vi.recover/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-11 02:47 zypp.0VjqOo/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-09 17:37 zypp.0Vtd3v/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-25 23:55 zypp.589wPK/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-26 01:29 zypp.AcChHu/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-03-04 11:03 zypp.apeRou/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-19 10:01 zypp.aPNA8l/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-01-29 09:55 zypp.ByQ7Op/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-01-27 22:27 zypp.cr8gZ4/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-01-08 01:35 zypp.eMQzZS/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-11 07:00 zypp.kj3YO0/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-26 00:15 zypp.oukmBB/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2009-12-19 21:05 zypp.pr5m1A/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-01 14:56 zypp.QmSeX8/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-15 18:25 zypp.WGazqk/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-02-11 06:57 zypp.yOhzes/ drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2010-01-08 03:04 zypp.ZGu3ga/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474 2010-02-24 23:24 rpm-tmp.56471 -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1161 2010-03-02 22:42 rpm-tmp.57406 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 990 2009-12-20 19:20 rpm-tmp.6041 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1477 2010-02-24 01:32 rpm-tmp.67611 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 990 2009-12-20 19:23 rpm-tmp.83613 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1477 2010-02-24 01:38 rpm-tmp.85932 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1013 2009-12-20 19:43 rpm-tmp.89898 02:16 alchemy:~> whoami david 02:17 alchemy:~> kcmshell --list The following modules are available: 02:17 alchemy:~> -- 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