KDE menus with no Fav and Apps

[robijf]

Yesterday I started an upgrade process by issuing
kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade
Upgrade started well, all files were downloaded, started upgrading and set-up, but at 60-70% something went wrong, the process got blocked.

After restarting the computer, I could not get a login screen. I figured kernel 3.19 was not installed properly. I used an older kernel to get at least to a command prompt to issue a
dpkg --configure -a
which restarted the installation process.

Finally I got a login screen, only to learn that I have no Favorites, no Applications, the Recent menu does not retain any used app (Firefox, RawTherapee, Dolphin, etc.).

Other things work: running commands, placing widgets on desktop, rebooting, halting the system from the KDE menu.

Can the menu items be restored or I need to reinstall KDE/Plasma 5 (v.5.2.2)

[Wheel Inventor]

Have you tried ?

Have you tried to manually run the kbuildsycoca5 ?

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/man8/kbuildsycoca5.8.html

NAME kbuildsycoca5 - Rebuilds the KService desktop file system configuration
cache.


SYNOPSIS
kbuildsycoca5 [OPTIONS...]


DESCRIPTION
kbuildsycoca5 builds binary cache of the data stored in .desktop and
MIME type .xml files that the KService framework uses to find plugins,
applications and other services.


The KService library uses this database to efficiently provide the
information requested of it.


Users do not normally need to run this application directly; KService
will run it if necessary, and if KDED is installed and running it will
run kbuildsyscoca5 whenever any of the files whose data is cached are
changed.

I would try the :

[COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]kbuildsycoca5 [/FONT][/COLOR]--noincremental

[robijf]

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
kbuildsycoca5 running...
Recreating ksycoca file ("/root/.cache/ksycoca5", version 300)
Menu "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/evolution-data-server-uoa.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/evolution-data-server-uoa.desktop"
Saving
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ("services", "servicetypes", "xdgdata-mime", "apps")

[Wheel Inventor]

Xdg_runtime_dir

The problem seems to be:

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'

At here:

:~$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/1000

and the

:~$ kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca5 running...
Recreating ksycoca file ("/home/wheelie/.cache/ksycoca5", version 300)
Menu "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
Saving
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ("services", "servicetypes", "xdgdata-mime", "apps")

The XDG: http://standards.freedesktop.org/bas...ec-latest.html

[robijf]

Ran

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

as regular user, not as root, gave back partial functionality.

I have now Reconq, Kontact, System Settings, Dolphin and IM Contacts in Favorites.

I tried to create a new user, the KDE menus are OK. The current user account has also a policykit1-kde message on the screen (top middle) plus it shows a authentication screen.

Should I delete/copy to old the setting files?

[robijf]

[SOLVED] KDE menues are back

Moved .cache and .config from user's home folder to a tmp folder, logged out and in again and things got fixed (Favorites, Applications).