If you did an rpm -Uvh or rpm -Fvh on the entire LM 7.2 updates site, you
will encounter that problem.
What i did after that "mistake" was to remove kdebase (rpm -e --nodeps
kdebase) and reinstall it (rpm -i kdebase-2.0.1*)
This will fix your icons (at least on my system it did).
HTH.
Ian
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David MacKenzie wrote:
> Preface:
> I can't find anywhere on www.linux-mandrake.com saying how to report
> bugs in the current distribution or updates, and qa.mandrakesoft.com
> asks for a password that I don't know how to get. So I am sending
> this bug report to the cooker list (which I am on) as a semi-last
> resort.
>
> I'm running 7.2 (from an ISO from linuxiso.org; I bought the
> early-release 7.2 boxed set but didn't install it) on a PC with the
> applicable update RPMs. After installing the KDE 2.0.1 RPM's from the
> mirror on ftp.tux.org, a bunch of things stopped working:
>
> 1. No more login and logout sounds.
> 2. Most of the little icons on the left side of the bar on the bottom
> of the screen turned into the generic gear. They used to be a house,
> a terminal, a geodisic whatsit, etc. When clicked on they bring up an
> error message saying that whatever it was they pointed to is not found.
> 3. The Configuration->KDE->LookNFeel menus are nearly empty. There's
> only one entry.
>
> By comparison with another 7.2 system with KDE 2.0 still on it,
> I found that a bunch of files in /usr/share/applnk were missing.
> They're not owned by any RPM, so I don't know where they are supposed
> to come from. By copying them from the non-upgraded machine, I could
> get back the pictures and sounds and Configuration menu entries, but
> those menu entries didn't work because kcmshell couldn't find the
> modules for them... I haven't figured out where it's looking for them.
> I haven't been able to find any documentation on kcmshell, in fact.
>
> Sorry for not having exact error messages. You should be able to
> reproduce the problem by simply installing KDE 2.0 on 7.2, and then
> upgrading (rpm -Uvh) to 2.0.1. I didn't do anything unusual. I had
> to revert to KDE 2.0 to get a working desktop. I have installed all
> of the KDE packages except the non-British i18n ones and kdegames.
>
>
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