Preface:
I can't find anywhere on www.linux-mandrake.com saying how to report
bugs in the current distribution or updates, and qa.mandrakesoft.com
asks for a password that I don't know how to get. So I am sending
this bug report to the cooker list (which I am on) as a semi-last
resort.
I'm running 7.2 (from an ISO from linuxiso.org; I bought the
early-release 7.2 boxed set but didn't install it) on a PC with the
applicable update RPMs. After installing the KDE 2.0.1 RPM's from the
mirror on ftp.tux.org, a bunch of things stopped working:
1. No more login and logout sounds.
2. Most of the little icons on the left side of the bar on the bottom
of the screen turned into the generic gear. They used to be a house,
a terminal, a geodisic whatsit, etc. When clicked on they bring up an
error message saying that whatever it was they pointed to is not found.
3. The Configuration->KDE->LookNFeel menus are nearly empty. There's
only one entry.
By comparison with another 7.2 system with KDE 2.0 still on it,
I found that a bunch of files in /usr/share/applnk were missing.
They're not owned by any RPM, so I don't know where they are supposed
to come from. By copying them from the non-upgraded machine, I could
get back the pictures and sounds and Configuration menu entries, but
those menu entries didn't work because kcmshell couldn't find the
modules for them... I haven't figured out where it's looking for them.
I haven't been able to find any documentation on kcmshell, in fact.
Sorry for not having exact error messages. You should be able to
reproduce the problem by simply installing KDE 2.0 on 7.2, and then
upgrading (rpm -Uvh) to 2.0.1. I didn't do anything unusual. I had
to revert to KDE 2.0 to get a working desktop. I have installed all
of the KDE packages except the non-British i18n ones and kdegames.
