kmenu (kmenuedit too) and kcontrolcenter have no entries. I suppose these are evidence of some more singular, general error, but I don't know what that might be. I have no idea what is going on since I just emerged kde. I'm sorry I have no more detail, but I don't know where to look or what to provide. $ emerge --info Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+ Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 02:38:11)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fmessage-length=0 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fmessage-length=0 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l3.5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts atlas audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib calendar cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope curl curlwrappers divx4linux doc dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd ethereal evo examples exif fam ffmpeg fftw flac font-server ftp gb gcj gif ginac glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack jpeg kde lcms lesstif libedit libg++ libgda lm_sensors mad mcal mikmod mime mmx mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msn ncurses nptl ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie plotutils png posix postgres qt quicktime readline shared sharedmem slang sndfile sockets sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd wmf wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Can you give us more information? Which kde version? Which kde ebuilds installed?
If you run kmenuedit or kcontrol from a terminal, is there interesting error-related output?
justin@archimedes justin $ kded --version Qt: 3.3.3 KDE: 3.3.2 KDE Daemon: $Id: kded.cpp,v 1.94 2004/07/15 13:28:55 lunakl Exp $ ebuild versions from /var/log/emerge.log: kde-base/arts-1.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/arts/arts-1.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kde-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kde/kde-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kde-env-3-r3::/usr/portage/kde-base/kde-env/kde-env-3-r3.ebuild kde-base/kdeaccessibility-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeaccessibility/kdeaccessibility-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdeaddons-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeaddons/kdeaddons-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdeadmin-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeadmin/kdeadmin-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdeartwork-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeartwork/kdeartwork-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r1::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdebase/kdebase-3.3.2-r1.ebuild kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.2-r1::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeedu/kdeedu-3.3.2-r1.ebuild kde-base/kdegames-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdegames/kdegames-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdegraphics-3.3.2-r2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdegraphics/kdegraphics-3.3.2-r2.ebuild kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.3.2-r2.ebuild kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdemultimedia/kdemultimedia-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdenetwork-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdenetwork/kdenetwork-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdepim-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdetoys-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdetoys/kdetoys-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdeutils-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdeutils/kdeutils-3.3.2.ebuild kde-base/kdewebdev-3.3.2::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdewebdev/kdewebdev-3.3.2.ebuild Output from running each program from the command line: kmenuedit kmenuedit: WARNING: Could not read /home/justin/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu kcontrol kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ kcontroledit kcontroledit: WARNING: Could not read /home/justin/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
I believe I've discovered what was wrong, namely that I had a ~/.config directory from another distro, so just 'rm -r .kde* .config' fixed everything it seems.
ok, closing.
