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[SOLVED] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 27th, '14, 19:50
by JJF
I am running Mageis 3 64b for a while, and recently unable to run (find) mcc in System tools, either in KDE or Gnome.
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uname -a
Linux localhost 3.10.28-desktop-1.mga3 #1 SMP Sat Feb 1 16:15:10 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I don't know how to restore it and why it disappeared
Please advise

JJF

Re: Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 27th, '14, 20:27
by doktor5000
You can install it as root via
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urpmi drakconf

To find out why/when it was removed look at the last 500 rpm transactions:
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journalctl -a | grep -F "[RPM]" | head -500

Re: Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 27th, '14, 21:38
by JJF
Thank a lot
drakconf did solve it
jjf

Re: [solved] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 28th, '14, 03:38
by doktor5000
Did you have a look why it was removed?

Re: [SOLVED] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 28th, '14, 08:54
by tarakbumba
The desktop file /usr/share/applications/drakconf.desktop had been moved to /usr/share/applications/mageia-drakconf.desktop when MGA4 was being developed. I think an update to MGA3 may moved it too. Please search /usr/share/applications/ for mageia-drakconf.desktop.

Re: [SOLVED] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 28th, '14, 09:19
by JJF
Have no idea and I don't know how to check it. My Linux knowledge is quite poor. (There are many small things that I am ashamed to ask about or to report. One of which is: how can I run Gnomeclassic, which appear in the login session selection, but when I mark it, I only get the splash screen without a panel or any possibility to launch even the terminal. Other sessions: KDE, Gnome, are OK)
Thanks for your help
JJF

Re: [SOLVED] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 28th, '14, 10:28
by tarakbumba
JJF wrote:Have no idea and I don't know how to check it. My Linux knowledge is quite poor. (There are many small things that I am ashamed to ask about or to report. One of which is: how can I run Gnomeclassic, which appear in the login session selection, but when I mark it, I only get the splash screen without a panel or any possibility to launch even the terminal. Other sessions: KDE, Gnome, are OK)
Thanks for your help
JJF


You can check it by opening /usr/share/applications directory either with by your file browser or running this command in terminal:
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ls /usr/share/applications/drak-*


Your Gnome classic issue seems to be a bug to me but i neither use gnome nor know which package is responsible from this issue.

Please, do not be ashamed. Everyone learns how to do things by first reading documents (man pages, wiki pages etc.) and then kindly asking which you already begin to do. Proper questions are your friend at this forum. Welcome to fantastic world of Free or Opensource software!

Re: [SOLVED] Control center disappeared

PostPosted: Feb 28th, '14, 15:29
by doktor5000
tarakbumba wrote:You can check it by opening /usr/share/applications directory either with by your file browser or running this command in terminal:
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ls /usr/share/applications/drak-*

Please check the previous posts, problem was that drakconf packages had been uninstalled. They are now back and it's working, so why look for the desktop files?

@JJF:
doktor5000 wrote:To find out why/when it was removed look at the last 500 rpm transactions:
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journalctl -a | grep -F "[RPM]" | head -500

Simply post that output here.