upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 broke amarok

[Gaetano Giunta]

Eduard Sukharev a écrit :
> On Воскресенье 22 февраля 2009 17:33:57 Diego wrote:
>   
>> CCing the amarok mailing list, maybe someone there can help.
>>
>> Gaetano Giunta ha scritto:
>>     
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I just tried upgrading from the latest 4.1 to 4.2.0, on win xp french.
>>>       
>
> It is strongly recommended not to upgrade between major releases. 4.1 and 4.2 
> packages are binary incompatible, so upgrading from any 4.1.x installation 
> into 4.2.x causes unexpected errors. You should completely delete the previous 
> KDE installation and fresh install KDE 4.2 from scratch. This should work, 
> then. Even though Amarok is quite a separate project it still uses kdelibs 
> which is important.
> If you have any issues deleting KDE consider reading this thread on KDE forum:
> http://forum.kde.org/how-to-remove-kde-from-windows-t-20596.html
>
> Please, report the outcome of your reinstall.
>   
Mmmh, strange that this upgrade path is unsupported, as the installer 
will let you happily do that withoiut a warning - and the release 
announcements on kde sites did not mention it...
Anyway:
- removed by hand kde dir, kde download dir and the two .kde folders in 
the win32 user profile dir
- launched installer again, picking 'latest-stable'
- selecting just amarok detected 33 dependencies, total 34 packages 
downloaded
- still no icons in my menu :(

here's the tail of the installer log:

    [2009-02-22 16:47:13] Debug: shared\unpacker.cpp 417
    Unpacker::unpackFile filename: 
    "D:/downloads/kde/openssl-0.9.8g-1-bin.zip" root:  "D:\kde"
    [2009-02-22 16:47:13] Debug: shared\unpacker.cpp 451
    Unpacker::unpackFile ret:  true
    [2009-02-22 16:47:13] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 34 checking for
    app  "update-mime-database"  -  found
    [2009-02-22 16:47:13] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 40 running 
    "update-mime-database" ("D:\kde/share/mime")
    [2009-02-22 16:47:17] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 34 checking for
    app  "kbuildsycoca4"  -  found
    [2009-02-22 16:47:17] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 40 running 
    "kbuildsycoca4" ()
    [2009-02-22 16:47:23] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 34 checking for
    app  "kwinstartmenu"  -  found
    [2009-02-22 16:47:23] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 40 running 
    "kwinstartmenu" ("--remove")
    [2009-02-22 16:47:23] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 34 checking for
    app  "kwinstartmenu"  -  found
    [2009-02-22 16:47:23] Debug: gui\postprocesspage.cpp 40 running 
    "kwinstartmenu" ()
    [2009-02-22 16:47:28] Debug: called


and here's what happens when I run kwinstartmenu by hand in a cmd shell:

    D:\kde\bin>kwinstartmenu
    Family none
    Family none
    kbuildsycoca4 running...
    Critical: winstartmenu(1884): No ksycoca4 database available!

    Critical: winstartmenu(1884): No ksycoca4 database available!


    D:\kde\bin>


I have no idea about where the ksyscoca db should be and why it is not 
available.
The only 'strange' thing on this laptop is the fact that there are a 
bazillion of tools already installed, including unxutils and lots of 
unixy stuff, and they might be in the shells'PATH env var...