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Hi. .... It seems lately that every other normal update I do cause something to malfunction. I'm using edgy with KDE my main desktop. I have both 'kcontrol center' and the newer 'system settings' installed and have for some time though I mainly rely on 'system settings' as my main avenue for tweaking control panel type modules.

Well ... everything was fine until two days ago when I followed the normal updates from Adept Updater. It updated about 25 packages and everything for the most part is running smoothly. However, there are now 4 modules within the system settings / kcontrol center that no longer work.

They are:

user management
monitor & display
disk & file systems
system services

If I use kcontrol center to open any of these, it simply goes back to the main kcontrol center screen. When I use System Settings, I get the exact same error when trying to open any of the 4 modules above:

The module User Management could not be loaded

The diagnostics is:

Possible reasons:

* An error occurred during the last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module.
* You have old third party module lying around.

Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, try contacting your distributor or packager.

The error messages above are the same except for the module name of whichever of the one I am trying to load is in the first line. I used User Management as an example.

Notice that no diagnostics are actually listed.

I do not want to attempt removing any of those modules as I think it might royally f'up something worse. Each of the 4 that do not work are vital in my opinion so I do not know what to do.

As I am still quite the novice when it comes to any sort of poking around and changing core settings, please give any advice as to what might be causing this.

Thanks a lot, jucato. I used Synaptic (I use it interchangeably with Adept -- no preference -- like them both) to reinstall the kde-guidance package and those modules work perfectly now. I think now that it actually had nothing to do with the recent updates thru ubuntu. Around the same time this all happened, I had just removed the "power manager" in favor of installing "kpowersave" as the power manager applet kept trying to shut my laptop down as it kept thinking the lid was closed when it wasn't. So I went to kpowersave, which, in my opinion, is slicker and better anyway. But power manager was tied into the kde-guidance package I discovered when looking to uninstall it as it is named "kde-guidance-powermanager". I still don't know why they are interconnected as they are dependent on one another but when i did the uninstall to the kde-guidance-powermanager package, something must have went awry with the settings of modules within the kde-guidance package. Reinstalling that package as you suggested got everything working perfectly again. And I can keep using kpowersave as my laptop's power manager of choice.

Thanks again. I doubt the solution would have ever dawned on me. It's nice that folks like you around the forums can recognize such things. I wouldn't have known at all that those four packages happen to all be installed together under kde-guidance.