On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:32, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> I think the others are more of an expert than me so they really don't care
> since they can fix most problems ASAP.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:08 PM
> To: Expert List
> Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:24, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> > Who and how to tell? I'm really surprised that this isn't all over the
> > message boards by now. Am we the only people having this problem, or the
> > only ones who have done the upgrade? Is anyone from Mandrake following
> this
> > list? Vincent?
> >
> > David
David,
Just talked with Vincent via e-mail on this and he's forwarding
things up the line to the package maintainers. He agrees that this one
is a lot more serious than initially thought and they are on it.
James
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:25 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> > Tell them to fix this it really is the pitts..
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:16 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> >
> > OK, I did a rebuild of both the system and the root menus from MenuDrake
> and
> > now KControl seems to be working again - except for the fact that I still
> > don't have screen savers which was the whole reason for the upgrade in the
> > first place. I'll log into the machine locally tonight and see if the rest
> > of the KDE environment has returned to normal...
> >
> > Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
> >
> > David
>
> The who to tell is bugs.mandrake.com. The Anthill bug reporting system
> is getting listened too so it would be a first stop for sure.
>
> The cure for lost menu's
>
> First verify that /etc/menu/menudrakeentry looks something like.
>
> ?package(menu): needs="kde" icon="applications_section.png" section="/"
> title=".hidden" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): command="superkaramba" needs="x11" icon="Cola.xpm"
> section="Configuration/Other/" title="Super Karamba"
> charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="/" title="Exit" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/" title="Window Maker" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/" title="Appearance" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/Appearance/" title="Background"
> charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/" title="Gradient"
> charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/" title="Images"
> charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/" title="Solid"
> charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/" title="Information" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/" title="Selection" charset="ISO-8859-1"
> ?package(menu): needs="wmaker" icon="applications_section.png"
> section="Session/Window Maker/" title="Workspace" charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> Note the title lines if they are "" instead of whatever things go bad.
> Anything you put in will get stuff back.
>
> Then as the user (not root) do either update-menus, or if you want to
> see the output update-menus -v
>
> James
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> > Do a rebuild of the menus from menudrake i think it was.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:57 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anything you tried brought them back? I'm totally at a loss.....
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:47 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> > I complained about this also if you restart X you will notice that the
> menus
> > are gone.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:34 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Last night, as the last thing I did after setting up a shiny new box, I
> > updated to all the latest bug and security fixes for 9.2. As a result of
> my
> > efforts, KDE's KControl is now totally broken. When I try to launch it, I
> > get the following spit out to the console:
> >
> > No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to
> Settings
> >
> > After which, Kcontrol comes up without any plugins. A similar error
> happens
> > when I try to configure Konqueror:
> >
> > WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting
> to
> > Settings/
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module filebehavior not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module fileappearance not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module filepreviews not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module filetypes not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_behavior not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_java_js not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_fonts not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module ebrowsing not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmhistory not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module cookies not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module cache not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module proxy not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmcss not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module crypto not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module useragent not found!
> > kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_plugins not found!
> >
> >
> > Needless to say, I'm not terribly pleased that a normal bugfix update
> > totally broke my KDE setup when all I really wanted were some screensavers
> > :)
> >
> >
> > Doing a quick Google search turned up the error message, but nothing
> helpful
> > about what to do about it. I've rm -rf'd my .kde directory to no use. I
> seem
> > to recall (now, not before I started the upgrade) that someone on this
> list
> > had a similar problem. Does this ring any bells? Has anyone upgraded and
> > found themselves dead in the water? If this is a common problem, does
> > Mandrake know about this? How do I fix it?
> >
> >
> > Help! I really don't want to reinstall from scratch.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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