[OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +0000, David Dawson wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> > aptitude -F '%c %p%?v' search '~R(~Rkcontrol)~dkde|kcontrol' | awk '{print
> > $1,$2,$3}'
> 
> Thanks,
> Here's the output:
> p gamin <none>
> i kcontrol 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
> i kdebase-data 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
> i kdelibs-data 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8
> i kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a-1
> i libarts1c2a 1.5.5-1
> i libkonq4 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
> i libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4

That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol
from a terminal window and checking for error messages. Another thing to
look at is ~/.xsession-errors after you have started kcontrol.

Somewhat of a stab in the dark: You could run ldd on a few of kcontrol's
shared object files (kcm_*.so) in /usr/lib/kde3/ to see if any problems
with libraries are reported. Maybe you notice something if you compare
the working modules with the nonworking ones. You can normally guess the
function from the filename. To test the one for setting the background,
for example, you would have to run:

ldd /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_background.so

This is really just poking at things and hoping something turns up,
though.

Another things to try is to reinstall the above packages (except for
gamin, of course). A more drastic variant of that would be to shut down
KDE and X, do a "dpkg --purge" on the packages and then to reinstall
them again. (You would at least need "--force-depends" to make dpkg
remove all these packages, therefore this manoeuvre is not for the faint
of heart.)

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