all my Control Center items are in Lost and Found!

newbiesforever · 01-09-2008, 09:23 PM

I forgot what I was looking for in the Control Center anyway, but I was startled to find that every single item available in its index has disappeared. Later, I accidentally found them: everything I can remember seeing there is apparently in Lost and Found, which I passed while looking for something else in the K menu. How can I put the icons(wrong word?) back in the Control Center? Of less interest to me, what could have caused this?

newbiesforever · 01-10-2008, 11:22 AM

I opened / in Konqueror, hoping to find the items in /lost + found and drag them into the control cenmter, but it was empty...

newbiesforever · 01-10-2008, 12:33 PM

Never mind...I solved my own problem. I still have no idea why it happened; but anyone who has their KDE Control Center modules disappear and pop up in the K menu's Lost and Found, for no apparent reason, should try solving it by upgrading the control center using Synaptic Package Manager, as I just did.

unSpawn · 01-10-2008, 01:01 PM

It's a bug. Seems related to a certain package manager (apt?) keeping or caching certain packages like Kcontrol and KDE-libs at a lower than useful version.

newbiesforever · 01-10-2008, 08:43 PM

Well, the bug appears to have just struck again, and is even less funny. My Konqueror has disappeared. I just reinstalled it with Synaptic. If things are going to randomly disappear, I'm glad my data is on a different partition.

unSpawn · 01-10-2008, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newbiesforever

If things are going to randomly disappear, I'm glad my data is on a different partition.

While bad it's just menu items, not actual data.

newbiesforever · 01-10-2008, 11:07 PM

Yes, but since I don't understand it, I can't be sure it won't spread.

archtoad6 · 01-11-2008, 11:20 AM

Which version(s) of KDE & MEPIS are you using? -- your profile just says "3.x".

Was there any triggering event, such as an install of some (which?) package?

newbiesforever · 01-11-2008, 03:34 PM

It's 3.4.3. And the KDE version...I'm not sure. It came with this MEPIS when I downloaded the ISO within the last few months.

This bug appeared after I upgraded Gaim and at least one optional package for Gaim which I don't recall.

newbiesforever · 01-11-2008, 04:07 PM

And now everything on my desktop except the wallpaper disappeared. I had just logged out and back in (as root). However, I restarted the computer and logged in again, and the items reappeared, but my wallpaper disappeared! In the words of the Fourth Doctor, "Nothing like this has ever happened before."

newbiesforever · 01-16-2008, 12:42 PM

Follow-up: I told you I should possibly worry about my data not being safe on the Linux partition. All my wallpaper files (not just the desktop wallpaper) just disappeared! The folder is empty.