KDE Control Center empty! [SOLVED]

[Guest]

well my issues is that I have no such file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ or anywhere in my system(i tried to locate it), it only exist in the latter of the instructions because I created it, and so it is empty. Only thing in ./applications-merged is kde-multimedia-music.menu .

i had the same problem, it is supposed to be in kdebase-data, which i've tried to reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install kdebase-data) a number of times, but since it was never copied i just went to /var/cache/apt/archives and copied kde-essential.menu (using mc) by hand, after that it was just a matter of linking, like suggested in previous posts

[Firztspawn]

Try this (worked for me):
su to root in console,
then:

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mkdir /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged
cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu


Restart Kcontrol. All menus should be in place

[sunrat]

Try this (worked for me):
su to root in console,
then:

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mkdir /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged
cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu


Restart Kcontrol. All menus should be in place

Worked great for me too. I had the problem originally after kde-something update. Fixed it with the symlink mentioned in the first post.
After today's xorg upgrade - same problem! Same fix didn't work but copying the file as above did the trick. The directory "kde-applications-merged" seems to be MIA so must be created. At least it's easy to fix.

[jmfv]

Hi

My 2 cents. Try to do run the following as root

mv /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged-old

and then

ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

Cheers

[joshinjay]

I appreciate the timely responses, but --reinstalling has not helped me... and the people who suggested the symlinks, again, it won't work because the file does not exist in my system. if someone can post a copy of thier kde-essentials.menu and i'll copy it into my empty one... or if someone can tell me how to manually pull it out of the kdebase-data.deb package without hosing my system, i'll do that. This is really frustrating, i've even tried remove kde kdebase and kdesktop and reinstalling.... but no changes whatsoever. I tried googling for the file also with no luck. thanks again for anyone who can set me off in the right direction.

[jmfv]

Did you install the menu and menu-xdg packages?

[sunrat]

Try

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update-menus

[havok1977]

I am having the same problem, and none of the solutions documented in this post have fixed it for me; is there anything else i should check?

Also my K Menu lost all of the Application shortcuts, i dont know if if is related to the kcontrol issue; but i havent found a solution for that either. When i try to rebuild it i get this:

dfuentes@raziel:~$ kbuildsycoca
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : media_realfolder.desktop
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Load error ()
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!


WTH? Help, anyone?

[joshinjay]

I tried what you said JMFV, I have the newest version installed already and I tried "update-menus" sunrat... no such luck. I reported the bug to KDE, hopefully they'll gimme something I can use. I'll let you know what they suggest if anything.

[bluesdog]

Probably won't help, but what versions of kdelibs and kdebase do you have?

[joshinjay]

kdebase Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1
KDELIBS Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5

Thats what I have installed... does this give you any hints as to what may be wrong?

[joshinjay]

So KDE said my bug report was duplicate, see this other bug for your resolution...and the answer was not there. There were replies to it talking about the symlink and such.. but then something someone said earlier in this post had hit me. So here is how I FIXED my kcontrol empty menu problem.

First make sure that the file we so desperately need is in the deb packge (kde-essentials.menu). Do that with the following:

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 dpkg -S /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

doing that should yield the result: "kdebase-data: /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu"

Now we can move forward, here is what I did step for step.

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 cd /var/cache/apt/archives/   

then

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 dpkg --unpack kdebase-data_4%3a3.5.5a.dfsg.1-2_all.deb

THEN(we're almost done)

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ls /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/

you should see "kde-essential.menu.dpkg-new"
just view this file with your favorite viewer/editor, make sure it has all the html style gobbledy-gook, then close out without editing it. If it has such coding, thats the file... now let's rename it.

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 cd /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/

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mv kde-essential.menu.dpkg-new kde-essential.menu

*BAM* it's done. it should be present RIGHT-AWAY, go boot up Kcontrol and make sure it works. If it doesn't, we now have the file needed, so the symlink fix should work. So in short, if it does NOT work, do the symlink fix which is:

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ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged
 

OK, best to you all, thanks so much for trying to help me out and not leaving me high and dry, I really appreciate the support of the community

[jmfv]

Hi.

I'm glad you've made it. Never giving up, that's the spirit! And thanks for posting your solution...

[divali]

Well. I've followed this thread and have come to this point and it seems 'kde-essential.menu.dpkg-new' is missing . Ive tried to install it with DPKG without any luck. Could it be my repositories? If so could someone let me know which ropo's to use.
Here's what I got at:
debian:/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged# mv kde-essential.menu.dpkg-new kde-essential.menu
mv: cannot stat `kde-essential.menu.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
debian:/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged#
Am I right or not?

[joshinjay]

Are you using Etch? Also, if you're following my instructions(it seems you are), the name of the file may be off a bit(i was doing everything via memory, and I may have misspelled). When you did the dpkg --unpack portion, what files do you see when you do

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 ls /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/

because it might be named something slightly different. if it is, then you're almost there you just have a small typo problem is all. let me know, i'd love to help.