I upgraded from Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) to Mandrake 10.0 Community yesterday; I did not choose a fresh install. My problem is to do with missing Konqueror Settings, however it might be a more general KDE problem.

After installation, I opened a Konqueror window to change some settings but Konqueror seemed to have lost its settings. On the first boot after installation, the Konqueror Settings window only had Performance. After a second reboot, Konqueror had Behaviour, Appearance, Previews & Meta-Data, and Performance. All I used between the first and second boot was menudrake and kmenuedit.

I have created a screenshot that shows the About box for KDE, Konqueror, and Konqueror Settings window (I can’t create links here yet so please see members.westnet.com.au/pasiphae). The red shaded box highlights all that is available. Why have nearly all of Konqueror's settings disappeared?

I believe there is a related problem: I cannot bring up other KDE settings. For example, "{right-click} on Desktop" --> Configure Desktop... does nothing at all except make the menu disappear. gkrellm’s CPU or Disk monitors do not show any activity and neither does top.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brian.

I can't really help except recommend a fresh install. The upgrade doesn't seem to work too well (never worked for me). You can keep your /home partition if you have a separate partition for it.

I do have my /home directory on a different partition, so I was thinking a fresh install might be the best thing to do. I didn't realise upgrades weren't too good so thanks for letting me know. I will post what problems or success I have here once I am done.

Regards,
Brian.

Even after a fresh install of Mandrake 10.0, I still didn't have any Konqueror Settings or Desktop Settings! The upgrade install must have broken the file files in ~/.kde.

What did I do to fix it? I did the following:
1) booted Linux into a non-X mode (mode 3 in /etc/inittab)
2) logged in as root
3) mv /home/brian /home/brian_old (renamed my old home directory)
4) userdel brian (deleted my user account)
5) startx
6) added my user account, which created a new /home/brian directory
7) chown -R brian:brian /home/brian_old (made brian owner of all files under old home dir)
8) rebooted Linux into X (mode 5 in /etc/inittab)
9) logged in as brian
10) used Konqueror with View Hidden Files option on to copy all files from /home/brian_old to /homebrian. When a file already existed, I just didn't copy it over to ensure the nice new settings weren't clobbered.

I did find one annoyance, though: my scanned pics were buried in ~/.kde, which was a directory I couldn't copy over. I am sure I will find other KDE apps that stored some of my documents deep down that I have lost. Why couldn't I copy ~/.kde? That's where KDE stores it settings so restoring it would have brought across the same problem I have in the very first place.