I just recently updated my whole system (to kde-3.3.2), and I just discovered that the KDE control center disappeared. Digging around, I found kde-base/kcontrol, but when I try to emerge kcontrol, I get this: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kcontrol" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.1-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) It would appear that an x86 version of kcontrol compatible with 3.3.2 has been removed from portage, and the only thing in there is ~x86. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 1 2005, 11:53:48)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -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=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzlib calendar cdr crypt cups curl dga dio directfb divx4linux doc eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd evo f77 f90 fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde ldap lesstif libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod mime mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msn msqli mysql ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php pie png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdlsession shared sharedmem slang sockets spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wxwindowsxml xml2 xmms xslt xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
kde-base/kcontrol-3.3.2 has never been in portage, split ebuilds are only available for >=3.4.0
Understood. But either way, something went wrong in the upgrade and the control center is gone. That sounds bugzilla-worthy to me.
Have you tried re-emerging kde-base/kdebase?
oof.
I just re-emerged kdebase and restarted KDE. There is no Control Center in any of the menus. I've also noticed that the Menu Editor has stopped working. Right-click on the K icon, select Menu Editor..... nothing.
It may not be the cause of your problem, but -mfpmath=sse is known to break some code. Also, this might be a silly question, but have you tried simply running the 'kcontrol' command rather than clicking on its menu entry?
For whatever reason, it's not in my path, but as root, I find it now at /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kcontrol. Also, I've never had problems with -mfpmath=sse, plus somehow I doubt much fp math is involved in setting up kde menus. How do I reemerge all of kde? And will that fix the menu problem? Obviously, emerging kdebase didn't help much. What package installs the menu options?
One of the things that people say is so great about building gentoo packages is that you can just let it go in the background. However, I have a suspicion that building your GUI environment while at the same time running the previous version could be problematic. Are there any ebuild log files that might report that a file was locked and couldn't be written to when installing? Also, when logging out of KDE, does it save the state of the K menu? The reason I ask is because something may possibly have changed the menu (properly), but when I logged out, KDE clobbered it with something that was partially new and partially old.
Building eg kde while running it is OK for the version you're building, but the one you're running might misbehave. Building a different version is completely OK. Anyway, your real problem is probably related to the broken PATH, and may not be related to KDE at all. Try to track the PATH issue down.
Probably there's nothing we can do for this problem.
