Bug 32735 – Kde 3.2 Beta - Control Center is empty.

• Status: VERIFIED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tijs Zwinkels 2003-11-04 12:47:30 UTC]

The Control Center runs just fine, but it's entirely empty.
All the control-center items are in the 'unknown' Start-menu item instead.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Installed Kde using hints in the first post of this page: http://forums.
gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=102451&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25
2.open the control center


Actual Results:  
The control-center is empty.

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed all the configuration items in the control-center 
instead of in 'unknown'.

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4, 2.4.21)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.
easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="apm crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif libg++ mad mikmod ncurses nls pdflib 
spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga 
tcltk sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl python esd imlib motif mozilla X kde java jpeg libwww 
maildir mpeg avi oggvorbis opengl oss perl png qt quicktime samba usb x86 -gnome 
-gtk radeon"

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-04 12:55:36 UTC]

it's a known problem, and it is happening with all distributions.  Until
the kde folks give us a fix, it's stuck this way though.

rumor has it you can find the control center entries in the K-menu somewhere.

[Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-04 18:13:49 UTC]

*** Bug 32757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Mauricio L. Pilla (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 07:15:57 UTC]

You can find some of then in an Unknown folder in the Kmenu (at least, that
is what happens for me).

[Comment 4 Bryan Stine (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 11:50:00 UTC]

I've seen this too and have found a solution.

The following KDE bug contains Gentoo-specific fixes to your problem.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67192

[Comment 5 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 11:59:07 UTC]

I've committed a fix to the ebuild which could create the softlink that fixes
this.

[Comment 6 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-10 04:57:23 UTC]

*** Bug 33116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-12-25 13:44:21 UTC]

Later? Fixed?? Whatever.