Comment 7 for bug 152325

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Jared Schlicht (jschlicht) wrote : Re: [Bug 152325] Re: KControl and KInfoCenter are empty after Gutsy upgrade

On Sunday January 13 2008 3:09:33 pm Luke Plant wrote:
> This bug is still biting me -- after a recent update, to kdebase-data
> 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2.1l from gutsy-updates, this occurred again. I
> discovered that /etc/xdg/menus/application-merged was a symlink to
> /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/applications-merged . After
> removing this symlink, I still have the problem that 'aptitude
> reinstall' simply does not restore kde-essential.menu, but I found that
> this command line works:
>
> sudo dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-
> data_4%3a3.5.8-0ubuntu2.1_all.deb /
>
> It may be that the problem will not recur after this, seeing as the
> symlink has been removed.

I've been away for a while. I tried out that command, no good.

/etc/xdg/menus/application-merged is *NOT* a symlink on my install.
Extracting the deb does not help.

I seem to have a kde-essential.menu now, however, it has not fixed the
problem. I suppose I'll have to download the Alpha3 CD and see if the
problem is still there.