[SOLVED] Mageia Control Center after update from Mageia 9

[coaxguy99]

Today I upgrade a Dell Vostro 1700 (Core 2 Duo) from Mageia 9 to Cauldron. While things appear to be working well after the upgrade, I have one major issue. When I open the Mageia Control Center, the entire right panel is blank no matter which option I select, i.e. "Software Management" gives blank screen, "Hardware" gives blank screen, etc. Not sure what happened as I didn't receive any errors during the upgrade. I tried removing 'drakconf' and 'drakconf-icons' and re-installing but that didn't work. Any assistance is very much appreciated!

Thanks,
Alben

[Germ]

See here for workarounds: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Errata#Mageia_tools

Here is the bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32185

Should apply to Cauldron, as well.

[coaxguy99]

Okay. I'll read through all of that and see if I can find a solution. Everything worked fine in Mageia 9. Clicking where the icons are supposed to be worked on a couple of items (in Cauldron) but then it froze the computer and I had to reboot. Hopefully, someone can find a solution and roll out a patch. From what I gather, it may be related to webkit? I don't know if I should submit another bug report for Cauldron. The MCC works fine on all of the other computers I've upgraded (four other laptops comprised of two chromebooks, an old gen 3 i5 HP, and a very old Gateway circa '06 or '07 made for XP). Please let me know if that will be helpful for the upcoming Mageia 10.

P.S. I really want this to work. I'm using Cinnamon Desktop on all of these systems and I'm loving Mageia. Trying to fully migrate from Mint, Fedora, and Manjaro.

Thanks,
Alben

[Germ]

That bug seems to have been fixed back in April.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2024-0135.html

[coaxguy99]

It may well be back. I literally upgraded from Mageia 9 to Cauldron today and the bug appeared. Since Cauldron doesn't use the update repositories, how would I apply the patch that fixed the bug?

[Germ]

I have 2 installs of cauldron and 3 installs of mga9. I only ran into that problem with one of them. Don't recall which one it was but I fixed it by changing the theme/colors. Changed it to a dark theme.

Cauldron packages are updated but the updates go into the release repos. Cauldron is rolling.

Maybe you should open a bug on Cauldron. One of the bug reports mentioned cauldron in passing but most of the discussion was about mga9.

[Germ]

Here's a thread on the ml that is the same as your situation. mga9 updated to cauldron.

https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2023-10/msg00072.html

[Germ]

New drakconf and drakconf-icons package showed up in Cauldron today that are supposed to fix the problem. Have you updated cauldron?

[Germ]

from the changelog:

Sat 21 Sep 2024 07:00:00 AM CDT martinw <martinw> 13.30-1.mga10

+ Revision: 2100027
- work around WebKit2 bugs that stop icons being displayed
(mga#30332, mga#32185, mga#33573)
- translation updates

[Germ]

nevermind...

I just read the latest bug. I see you installed the new packages and the problem is fixed...

[coaxguy99]

nevermind...

I just read the latest bug. I see you installed the new packages and the problem is fixed...

I appreciate all of your replies. I did mark it solved. I'm not sure why it doesn't show up until you click in the thread.