Bug 76454

Summary: KDE Control Panel icon produces no results when accessed
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Marshall DeBerry <marsdeb>
Component: kdeutilsAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Marshall DeBerry 2002-10-22 00:18:45 UTC
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Description of problem:
Clicking on the KDE Control Panel icon produces no results.  Opening a term
window and entering the command /usr/bin/kontrol-panel  produces the following:
/usr/bin/kontrol-panel: relocation error: /usr/bin/kontrol-panel: undefined
symbol: __ti7QDialog


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on KDE Control Panel icon--no results
2.Open term window, try /usr/bin/kontrol-panel
3.Error message: undefined symbol:  __ti7QDialog produced
	

Actual Results:  /usr/bin/kontrol-panel: relocation error:
/usr/bin/kontrol-panel: undefined symbol: __ti7QDialog

Expected Results:  The KDE Control Panel window should have opened.

Additional info:

Action performed as root.  Strings on binary file (kontrol-panel) displays 
control-panel-4.2.3
Machine is a Pentium II, 350 mhz, 128 megs memory, ATI All in Wonder Pro card, 8 meg

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2002-10-23 11:50:45 UTC
The problem is that kontrol-panel, which is obsolete in 8.0, was compiled
against gcc-2.96 and is not compatible with gcc 3.2.

kontrol-panel does not work in 8.0 because of vfolder. I recommend you use
"Start Here" icon on your KDE desktop.