apt-get upgrade broke kcm_kio.so

Dtsazza · 10-03-2006, 05:32 AM

Hi all,

I recently did an 'apt-get upgrade' after not having done so for a while. Everything seemed fine at first, but then I noticed that Konqueror seemed to not be storing cookies. I went to the 'cookies' page on 'Configure Konqueror' and got the following message:

Code:

The specified library kio could not be found.

The diagnostics is:
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kio.so: undefined symbol:
_ZN9KLineEdit13focusOutEventEP11QFocusEvent

Possible reasons:

   * An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module
   * You have old third-party modules lying around

Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message.  If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager.

So that at least explains why the cookies weren't working... packages.debian.org reports that kcm_kio.so is part of the kcontrol package. I've tried reinstalling it (after an 'apt-get clean') but to no avail. I deleted (well, moved) the offending module and the error changed to file not found; the fresh re-install replaced it and gave the same error message.

There was some kind of non-fatal-sounding error while upgrading, but I merely issued 'apt-get upgrade' again and it went along on its merry way. Perhaps it's QT libraries that I have corrupted; anyone know if there's an apt/dpkg log that will have recorded this? Or failing that, a guess at which package might have been corrupted?

Thanks in advance.

Dtsazza · 10-10-2006, 08:54 AM

The problem is fixed now - it seems that after I rebooted my machine at the weekend all unwanted symptoms had gone away! I'm not going to conjecture about what specifically might have caused this, but that's something to try if a major upgrade doesn't go quite to plan.