Bram Schoenmakers wrote: > Op dinsdag 25 september 2007, schreef Terry: > > Hi, > > >> I recently made the mistake of "upgrading" kde 3.5.7 . The kde control >> centre subsequently had no index. I was able to get an index initially >> by deleting my .kde folder. That is no longer the case. Besides which, >> the control centre has no index when I open it as root user either. >> >> The last time I had an index, it disappeared after I changed the >> language setting from U.S. English to British English. I have the >> latest British language package available from the distro. >> Incidentally, it seems I am the only person experiencing this >> difficulty. I had the same difficulty when installing a previous update >> but I was able to revert to the earlier version and the problem >> disappeared. I now have no option but to keep the version currently >> installed. >> >> I have found the folder /usr/share/apps/kcontrol which contains a folder >> called 'about' and another called 'pics'. It also contains a file >> called 'kcontrolui.rc'. 'about' contains 'main.html' which is a >> masterpiece of cryptography. >> >> How do I fix this, please? >> > > Perhaps running kbuildsycoca as your own user fixes it for you. > > Kind regards, Thanks for the information. I just updated Kde on my other partition and got the same result. I ran kbuildsycoca but the problem was not fixed. I got a large number of "WARNING" messages. I'm using Xfce but have been able to run KDE control centre previously. I could try logging in to Kde and doing something there. Any ideas, anyone, please. -- Regards, Terry North Murphy's Law is recursive ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.