Bug 67192 - Control panel menu empty, but its listings can be found under menu named "Unknown" in main KDE menu
Summary: Control panel menu empty, but its listings can be found under menu named "Unk...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kcontrol
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Molkentin
URL:
Keywords:
: 67202 67227 67307 67492 68208 68719 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-11-04 10:43 UTC by Tri Ngo
Modified: 2003-11-21 14:52 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Tri Ngo 2003-11-04 10:43:17 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.93)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r2, propolice)
 used default konstruct CFLAGS
OS:          Linux

This is after a fresh install, (first kde startup) using konstruct version 20031103. The konstruct meta package kde was compiled with default CFLAGS (kdeedu did not build successfully, a different bug however).
The quick access control panel button on the kicker displays "no entries" when pressed. Also both the control panel and Info Center programs display no entries in their menus. However, in the main KDE menu (by pressing the "K" button) there is a menu titled "Unknown" under which the entries for both the control panel and Info Center can be found.
Comment 1 Maksim Orlovich 2003-11-04 16:09:28 UTC
*** Bug 67202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Maksim Orlovich 2003-11-04 23:46:47 UTC
*** Bug 67227 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Philippe Rigault 2003-11-05 00:30:08 UTC
I can confirm this here:
  - Info Center is emptry
  - Control Center is empty, except for
	Peripherals/Digital Camera
	System/K3bSetup2
	
I do not have any "Unknown" entry on my K-menu though.

KDE-3.1.93
built from sources (Konstruct + GCC-3.3.2)
Linux-2.4.22 i686

This is what I can find in my .xsession-errors:

kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kcontrol', ...)
kdeinit: Got EXT_EXEC 'kcontrol' from launcher.
WARNING: NAME not specified in initial startup message
kio (KLauncher): kcontrol (pid 25003) up and running.
DCOP: register 'kcontrol' -> number of clients is now 20
DCOP: register 'anonymous-25003' -> number of clients is now 21
kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-prigault/ksycoca
kcontrol: Found basegroup = Settings/
kcontrol: [KCModuleInfo::KCModuleInfo(KSharedPtr<KService>)] Settings/Peripherals/kamera.desktop
kcontrol: [KCModuleInfo::KCModuleInfo(KSharedPtr<KService>)] Settings/System/k3bsetup2.desktop
kwin: Filtering out decoration resize event:[521x467]:[100x100]:[700x420]
kwin: Filtering out decoration resize event:[521x467]:[122x100]:[100x100]
kwin: User timestamp, initial:4294967295
kwin: User timestamp, ASN:579640
kwin: User timestamp, final:579640
kwin: Activation, compared:579640:575281:true
Comment 4 Robert Schouwenburg 2003-11-05 09:52:32 UTC
I have this problem too. No entries in kcontrol and a kmenu-item called unknown containing all the modules.

Running kbuildsycoca generates lots of output, all of them warnings like this:

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/book'

As a possible resolution I emptied my .kde directory, but that did not work.

I use Gentoo. Same as the original reporter of this bug.
Comment 5 Andre Eisenbach 2003-11-05 10:32:15 UTC
This workaround fixes the problem:
(on Gentoo Linux - your path may vary)

 cd /usr/kde/3.2/etc/xdg/menus/ 
 ln -s default_kde-settings.menu kde-settings.menu
Comment 6 Waldo Bastian 2003-11-05 11:03:47 UTC
Workaround above is the correct fix. Fixed in CVS already.
Comment 7 Maksim Orlovich 2003-11-05 19:51:08 UTC
*** Bug 67307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Philippe Rigault 2003-11-05 20:09:24 UTC
I think the above only fixes 'Control Center', and to fix 'Info Center' one must also do:

cd $KDEDIR/etc/xdg/menus/ 
ln -s default_kde-information.menu kde-information.menu 

In this directory, there is also default_kde-screensavers.menu that does not have kde-screensavers.menu pointing to it.
Comment 9 Stephan Binner 2003-11-07 13:06:57 UTC
*** Bug 67492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2003-11-14 14:59:28 UTC
*** Bug 68208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Maksim Orlovich 2003-11-21 14:52:10 UTC
*** Bug 68719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***