[lug] KDE Control Center problem

[Terry Branaman]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 01:06, D. Stimits wrote:
> Terry Branaman wrote:
> 
> > I have a problem with kcontrol - there are no modules available. The
> > list for the index and search are completely empty. I do not have any
> > entries in the K menu Preferences entry either.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me where to find the information about the modules that
> > should be available, configuration file(s) for kcontrol, etc? And how do
> > I get the list back? I did a google search, and found one report that
> > said that deleting my kcontrolrc file should bring back the entries, but
> > that didn't have any effect.
> >
> > I am running Mandrake 9.1.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I have not looked at Mandrake at all, but such a symptom has me highly 
> suspicious of directory and file permissions for the relevant config 
> files and modules. If the user running the control center does not have 
> permission for a file or a directory or an executable, then you would 
> probably see this behavior.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
> 
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Even when I su to root I have the problem. And I can't find the module
or config file(s), so I can't even determine if they are hosed.
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