I just updated everything, and I still get nothing in the kcontrol window. $ dpkg -l kdebase Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==================-==================-==================================================== ii kdebase 3.5.6-0ubuntu4 base components from the official KDE release [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l kcontrol Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==================-==================-==================================================== ii kcontrol 3.5.6-0ubuntu4 control center for KDE
******************************** kcontrol also throws several warnings/errors on the command line when run. (Though the windows shows up, empty.) Perhaps they can help: ******************************* $ kcontrol X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo kcontrol X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ ERROR: Communication problem with kcontrol, it probably crashed. ************************* Here I was returned to the shell (the console process stopped), but the window was shown and remained there. Several other errors continued popping up in the console. ************************* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kdeinit: Shutting down running client. --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /root/.DCOPserver_bogdanb-laptop__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/DefaultPlugins.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/DefaultPlugins.desktop kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available! ********************************* This behavior is consistent. It always throws the short error list when run normally, and a longer one & the console process quits when run with sudo. -- kcontrol is empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/80444 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
