empty applications menu in KDE

[alvarorincon2005]

suddendly i found empty my KDE applications menu, how can i restore it?

[dasein]

Solution in less time and with 86% less typing. How cool is that?

[alvarorincon2005]

mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4.old doesnt work
thank you anyway

[confuseling]

Were you logged out while you did it?

Probably easiest to quit to the login screen, use a different virtual console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1) to log back in, mv the directory, and use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI login...

[alvarorincon2005]

i logged out started a console from control - alt - f1 logged in as root deleted .kde and then logged out and control - alt- f7 logged in in kde environment but the menu keeps empty

thank you

[confuseling]

Did you delete your .kde4, or roots? In

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mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4.old

the tilde is shorthand for the current user's home directory...

[alvarorincon2005]

i deleted /home/wayuu/.kde wayuu is my user, my old /home/wayuu/.kde is saved as /home/wayuu/.kde.old

but nothing happens menu is still empty

i installed google chrome may that be the problem?

[confuseling]

Odd...

Maybe try creating a new user (adduser is easy enough...), see if that has the same problem?

[alvarorincon2005]

i created the another user, menu is empty again for the new user ...

thank you

[alvarorincon2005]

i found something suspicious ----->


$ kbuildsycoca4 -noincremental
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(7521): "applications.menu" not found in ("/home/alvaro/.config/menus/", "/etc/xdg/menus/")

kbuildsycoca4(7521) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry text/html in "/home/alvaro/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
$

[confuseling]

Beyond me I'm afraid... Only thing I'd suggest is reinstalling kde-plasma-desktop (or any other preferred metapackage).

[tomazzi]

This happened to me few times on Wheezy, but it seems to be fixed on Jessie - apparently KDE Menu componnent wasn't tested at all, and it fails mainly on 64bit multicore systems without an explicit reason. I would suggest to switch to newer KDE version, what hopefully would silence the problem.

[alvarorincon2005]

how can i switch to a newer version of KDE is it on the repos or do i have to add a new repo to sources.list ? i want to stay in wheezy