Bug#402716: No entries appear in kcontrol or kinfocenter

[Fathi Boudra <fboudra@gmail.com>]

hi,

as you find http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397057 , could 
you provide output of ls -al /etc/xdg/menus

You must have in /etc/xdg/menus something like:
|-- applications-merged
|   `-- kde-essential.menu
|   `-- kde-multimedia-music.menu
|-- debian-menu.menu -> /var/lib/menu-xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu
|-- kde-applications.menu
|-- kde-information.menu
|-- kde-screensavers.menu
`-- kde-settings.menu

applications-merged directory should at least contain a file called 
kde-essential.menu

the temporary workaround (create a symlink to applications-merged) must be 
removed:
ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

so just delete the kde-applications-merged symlink if you've got it:
rm /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

cheers,

Fathi