Bug 93277

Summary:	kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Fabio Erculiani <fabio.erculiani>
Component:	ksycoca	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andre.wittmann
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Fabio Erculiani 2004-11-14 20:56:29 UTC

Version:           3.3.x (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-3.3.4 CFLAGS="-march=i386 -Os"
OS:                Linux

I was including KDE 3.3.1 (and 3.3.0 before 3.3.1 shows up) in my LiveCD (Gentoo RR4 LiveCD 2.0). Everything emerged fine, no problems at all. So i started to make the ISO image, after this easy step, now I had to test KDE on my CD. X started and kde 3.3 too. I didn't know why kicker and K menu were so ugly until I've started kcontrol. No items at all. After some investigation, I've discovered that the problem was in kbuildsycoca, that  if running from a CD, cretes some problems.

Kcontrol reported this if started from a shell:
 * kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/

If I copy ksycoca and ksycocastamp from my HD to the LiveCD directory (/var/tmp/kdecache-user/ that is rw), kcontrol works great.

KDE 3.2.3 doesn't have this bug.
KDE 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 are affected.

Anyone can help me?

Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2005-01-06 16:15:32 UTC

I think this got fixed with the following patch to kdelibs/kdecore/kconfigbackend.cpp:

--- kconfigbackend.cpp  27 Sep 2004 22:11:36 -0000      1.99
+++ kconfigbackend.cpp  27 Dec 2004 10:27:30 -0000      1.100
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ void KConfigINIBackEnd::parseSingleConfi
    map = ( const char* ) mmap(0, rFile.size(), PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,
                                           rFile.handle(), 0);

-   if (map)
+   if ( map != MAP_FAILED )
    {
       s = (const char*) map;
       eof = s + rFile.size();

Please reopen this bugreport if the problem persists after applying this patch.

Comment 2 Matěj Laitl 2012-02-05 21:18:17 UTC

*** Bug 232976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***