cannot run kcm-grub2

[gallicbear]

Does anyone have experience with kcm-grub2? I installed it 3 times already, under Fedora 16. It is nowhere to be found. The third time I downloaded it from the ksmanis repo. And the install process even said that that it had updated it. How can I run it? I would expect to see it among the applications. For instance I also installed gnumeric today and it put it under applications/office. There is no problem seeing it. But kcm-grub2 nowhere to be seen. Not even in the /bin directory. Any tips? Thanks in advance.

[PabloTwo]

Use the command rpm -ql kcm-grub2 to see where all the files were installed to.

[gallicbear]

Thank you, PabloTwo. I did that. Unfortunately, I didn't find an executable file. The README file didn't offer any explanation either. Weird program, and yet others like it from what I read. I also see screen shots online. How do people get it to work?

[PabloTwo]

I don't use KDE, but I did download that rpm package and extracted it to have a look at it.
There is no direct executable. It is meant to run as a service:

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service

I don't know if KDE automatically launches that service at boot with that being in that location or not, or if you have to do something to activate it.

As far as a menu item, that's supposed to be controlled by the .desktop file:

/usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_grub2.desktop

The two relevant entries in that file being:

Exec=kcmshell4 kcm_grub2
Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-settings-system;

There are url links in the README file that might lead you better info on how this works.

[gallicbear]

Thanks, PabloTwo, for going through the trouble of installing the program. And I appreciate the hint about this being a service. However, as much as I play with this 'desktop' file, nothing works. I do not get a gui editor onto the screen. And the websites do not explain that either. They just show the 'finished' product, but not how it gets launched.

[PabloTwo]

Well, I didn't install it, I just extracted the rpm package contents to a directory in my home directory so I could see what was in the desktop file. If you did have a menu item for it, and clicked on it, what it would do would be to execute the command "kcmshell4 kcm_grub2". But it's my guess that the "org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service" service would need to be running for that to have any effect.

As I say, I don't use KDE and I'm not familiar with the directory structure I'm seeing here. Maybe some other KDE use can tell you how you get that service started in KDE.

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service

[gallicbear]

I understand, PabloTwo. Here is what I have done so far. I am in the directory where that service (org.kde.control.kcmgrub2) is located. Here is what I tried:

[root@bernie-fedora16 system-services]# ls
ca.desrt.dconf.service
com.redhat.abrt.service
fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service
fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service
net.reactivated.Fprint.service
org.bluez.service
org.fedoraproject.Config.Firewall.service
org.fedoraproject.Setroubleshootd.service
org.fedoraproject.SetroubleshootFixit.service
org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
org.freedesktop.ColorManager.service
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service
org.freedesktop.hostname1.service
org.freedesktop.locale1.service
org.freedesktop.login1.service
org.freedesktop.ModemManager.service
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service
org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher.service
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.service
org.freedesktop.systemd1.service
org.freedesktop.timedate1.service
org.freedesktop.UDisks.service
org.freedesktop.UPower.service
org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.service
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism.service
org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service
org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism.service
[root@bernie-fedora16 system-services]# systemctl status org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service
org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service
Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)
[root@bernie-fedora16 system-services]# systemctl enable org.kde.kcontrol.kcmgrub2.service
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
[root@bernie-fedora16 system-services]#

What am I doing wrong? This is puzzling.

[bbfuller]

Hello gallicbear

You've probably seen this:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=137886

where the screenshots show that it is supposed to be part of the KDE Control Centre when running (aka System Settings).

So I assume that something needs to tell the Control Centre to include it. I don't think it was ever intended to run as a self contained gui.

Somewhere on this forum I've seen something about the mechanism for adding/removing modules from Control Centre - I just can't find where.

[gallicbear]

Thanks, bbfuller. No I wasn't aware of this, but it's starting to make sense. I appreciate the link and will go from there.