KControl and KInfoCenter are empty after Gutsy upgrade
Bug #152325 reported by
Luke Plant
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A day after upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy RC, kcontrol and kinfocenter have no items in them at all. My 'lost and found' folder in the main menu system seems to have inherited most of the missing items though!
This problem is reported widely on the internet, I've yet to find an easy solution (some suggest purging and resinstall kdebase-data, which sounds like it could be a pain, as you have to reinstall lots of other things to)
Changed in kdebase: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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Workaround:
1) create empty directory 'temp' apt/archives/ kdebase- data_4% 3a3.5.8- 0ubuntu1_ all.deb temp xdg/menus/ applications- merged/ kde-essential. menu /etc/xdg/ menus/applicati ons-merged/
2) Extract contents of deb manually, something like
dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/
3) Then copy over the file you need
sudo cp temp/etc/
I really don't know why 'dpkg --unpack' and 'aptitude reinstall' are not capable of doing this!