[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

[James]

Hello,


What happens is when I boot up kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5
all the kde stuff (4.2.4) shows up.


When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5
or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde menu bar across the bottom
of the screen is gone.  I still get a few kconsole sessions
that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde
tools seem to be missing or hidden. All of this on a change
in the selected kernel from grub, no other changes:



If I reboot the kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5
it all shows up again.


I've built these newer kernel like I always do
make menuconfig
(make && make modules_install) 
so I'm not sure what I should look at to fix this.


any ideas?

James

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James:

> When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5
> or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom
> of the screen is gone.  I still get a few kconsole sessions
> that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde
> tools seem to be missing or hidden.

I've had a similar issue when switching logins between KDE 4 and 3 regularly - 
The menu went missing in 3 from time to time. As solution I was told to run 
kbuildsycoca. In your case (for KDE4) you need to run kbuildsycoca4.
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag 21 September 2009, James wrote:

> 
> any ideas?

maybe you forgot 
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y

?

but you should really start with a diff of  the configs.

[gentoo-user] ReSOLVED: KDE menu missing with new kernel

[James]

Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes:


> I've had a similar issue when switching logins between KDE 4 and 3 regularly - 
> The menu went missing in 3 from time to time. As solution I was told to run 
> kbuildsycoca. In your case (for KDE4) you need to run kbuildsycoca4.



All I had to do was run 'kbuildsycoca4' as a normal user from the command line
with the old kernel, reboot and it was fixed.



thx,


James