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Wednesday, August 2nd 2006, 7:47pm

control center won't open

i just upgraded from fedora 4 to 5 and since then i am not able to open the control center or the help. when i click on the control center nothing happens. when i click on the help button it begins to act like it's going to open something but then it doesn't.

this is kde version: 3.5.1 2.3Redhat

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Thursday, August 3rd 2006, 3:25am

I'm presuming you mean the KDE Control Center?

Try starting them manually with these commands:
kcontrol
khelpcenter

See what happens. If they still won't launch, try entering those commands in Konsole so that you could see what error messages are displayed.
OS: Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) | KDE 3.5.3
Computer Specs: AMD Sempron 2200 1.5Ghz | VIA KM266 Pro 8235 chipset | nVidia GeForce MX 4000 128MB DDR-RAM 32-bit AGP 8x

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Thursday, August 3rd 2006, 4:18pm

ran kcontrol, khelpcenter, kopete

i ran kcontrol, and kopete from the run kde command and they said
KDEInit could not launch "appname"

i also ran khelpcenter and nothing happened at all. i also tried calling them from the terminal window and got this error:

kcontrol: /opt/gcc-3.4.6/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4)

for each of them i got the same error. i installed gcc-3.4.6 on my system before the update. however since i updated the packages on my computer after the upgrade to fedora 5, now when i run which gcc it gives me the 4.1. (i'm only saying this because i don't understand why it is looking for libstdc++.so.6 from gcc-3.4.6 instead of from gcc-4.1

please help!

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Thursday, August 3rd 2006, 4:34pm

RE: ran kcontrol, khelpcenter, kopete

ok, i just figured it out. when i installed gcc3.4.6 i added a file with the path to its libraries to ld.conf.d i just removed that ran
/sbin/ldconfig
updatedb
and problem solved!

thanks!