Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

[arlie@worldash.org (Arlie Stephens)]

Hi Folks,

Thanks to these two people, my system no longer has this problem. 
Aptitude had taken it into its addled little mind to 'hold' kdelibs 
at 4.3.5a.dfsg.1-3. Overriding this (and upgrading to 4.3.5a.dfsg.1-5)
fixed the problem. Next step, debug aptitude ;-) 

On Dec 02 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:50:01 +1100, M-L wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:35, Florian Kulzer sent this for all our 
> > perusal:
> > >---> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> > >---> > Hi Folks,
> > >---> >
> > >---> > Like several others, I've got an etch installation with kde where the
> > >---> > kde control panel is empty. The last time this came up, someone
> > >---> > pointed to a kind of lost and found within kde - it shows up as one
> > > of ---> > the directory-like choices in that application menu. Sure enough,
> > > ---> > I've got a huge lost and found menu, which will probably let me get
> > > at ---> > the various kde control center options, but what I want is to fix
> > > the ---> > control center.
> > >---> >
> > >---> > I don't know how kde works, internally. How do I get these tools to
> > >---> > appear where they belong? Am I looking for a directory tree, to be
> > >---> > fixed with mv, some text file to be editted, or (I fear) some binary
> > >---> > file to be modified only with some doubtless graphical tool?
> > >---> >
> > >---> > Also, assuming I fix whatever got misinstalled, how do I avoid having
> > >---> > it break again every time some kde component is upgraded?
> > >--->
> > >---> This sounds like bug #397057 / #398734. It was supposedly fixed in
> > >---> kdelibs 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-4. Which version of this package do you have
> > >---> installed? (An up-to-date Etch system should have 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5.)
> 
> [...]
> 
> > No my system doesn't have that and I looked through 
> > the /var/cache/apt/archives and that version isn't there either. I did an 
> > apt-get update/upgrade this morning and came up empty. 
> > But I have this version installed:-
> > Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers
> > Architecture: all
> > Version: 4:3.5.3-1
> > Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.3-1), kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.5.3-1)
> > 
> > Maybe others only have this version installed.
> 
> What is the output of "apt-cache policy kcontrol kdelibs"? 
> 

-- 
Arlie

(Arlie Stephens	                              arlie@worldash.org)