Possible problem with the new KDE 3.5 from "updates released"

PTrenholme · 12-11-2005, 01:35 PM

I'm not sure if this is a KDE problem or something with my setup, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else had noticed this.

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the KDE 3.5 package from the "kde-redhat-stable" repository.

Today I tried to access kcontrol->desktop->panel from a user account, and was presented with as essentially blank screen. When tried from "root" the window displayed correctly.

I suspect this is a premissions problem on the "panel" applet binary, but I not sure which binary to look at.

Anyhow, my question: Has anyone else seen this problem, and, if so, have you got a fix?

Edit: Changed repository name per comments below.

spooon · 12-12-2005, 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTrenholme

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the KDE 3.5 package from the "updates-released" repository.

You must be mistaken; because KDE 3.5 packages haven't been released on Fedora updates repositories. Maybe it's some other repository?

PTrenholme · 12-12-2005, 08:33 AM

Sorry

! Yes, you're correct. The update was from the "kde-redhat-stable" repository.

Edit: Here's the kde.repo file for readhat:

Code:

$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/kde.repo
# kde-redhat.repo, v1.0

[kde-redhat-stable]
name=kde-redhat-stable
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/stable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1

[kde-redhat-stable-all]
name=kde-redhat-stable-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* testing/testing-all together; requires/depends-on stable and updates-testing
[kde-redhat-testing]
name=kde-redhat-testing
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/testing/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

[kde-redhat-testing-all]
name=kde-redhat-testing-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/testing/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* unstable,unstable-all together; requires/depends-on testing
[kde-redhat-unstable]
name=kde-redhat-unstable
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/unstable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

[kde-redhat-unstable-all]
name=kde-redhat-unstable-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/unstable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

PTrenholme · 12-17-2005, 04:00 PM

Solution found: I needed to rm -fR ~/.config/menus/ (consider a backup first), and restart KDE.

Other solutions (from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ in the users forum.)

1. $ kbuildsycoca --noincremental
2. $ mv ~/.kde/share/applnk

mrapathy · 12-19-2005, 03:18 PM

no any solutions for missing menu items and admin feature for the panel.

they show up in root but user cannot see it.

tried removing .kde .local

remember seeing something similar but forget the fix.

PTrenholme · 12-19-2005, 06:39 PM

That is exactly the problem I described above. Look at, and delete ~/.config/menus, which stores user's redefinition of the standard menus, and any menu addition they've made.

Somehow making menus changes kills the panel windows. (I suspect that a a change to root's menus would kill it's panel menus, too.)