On 03/13/2011 08:44 PM, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Now OpenSUSE 11.4 is out and all KDE3 users in OpenSUSE report the same error: crash in kcontrol icon theme module which makes kcontrol entirely empty on default install. The crash depends on used icon theme, but the most themes crash that module.
I suspect the problem originates with zlib.
Ilya,
I have seen similar zlib issues with yast2 --qt3 in in 11.0 where I updated zlib to the SLE11 version. With the 11.0 base, the updated zlib would cause yast to segfault. Downgrading zlib fixed the 11.0 issue. However, what it tells me is that SLE11 has incorporated changes that allow yast2 to work with the updated zlib. I don't know if that patch/fix/whatever to yast2 in SLE11 is relevant or could help in the 11.4 missing kcmshell icon issue, but it is worth a check to see if there are any SLE11 patches related to zlib.
Here was the relevant thread:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2010-10/msg00462.html