Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 18:48:02 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol >> > from a terminal window and checking for error messages. Another thing >> Thanks! >> I'm not exactly a newbie, but as I do most things in a shell, I usually >> don't have occasion to delve into the desktop settings. >> This is what I got: >> kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! >> Defaulting to Settings/ >> >> I see that something is missing, probably from an rc file, so which one? >> (I suspect I could tweak it by hand) >> > look at is ~/.xsession-errors after you have started kcontrol. > > It seems that there is a related bug report > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397057 > > which mentions a workaround. As far as I can tell, you have to remove > and purge kdebase-data and then reinstall it. The whole problem seems to > be caused by the absence of the file > > /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu > Just wanted to report that the problem is now fixed. I updated kdebase and kdelibs and ran kbuildsycoca and kcontrol is just fine now. The key thing was the bug report. Thanks especially to Florian! -- If you wrestle in the mud with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. -- Dave Dawson
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