serviceconfig hangs at 0%

Using Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

System Settings > Advanced tab > System Services
When I click on this, a new, small, window pops up with the title "Querying System Service Status - System Settings" and it stays at 0% indefinitely. Clicking on kcontrol > System Administration > System Services just returns to the default blue KDE Control Center window (this was the same behavior in Feisty). Someone in #kubuntu told me to start it from command line with "serviceconfig". Doing that returns the following:

[~ @ 07:13:42]$ serviceconfig
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 1472, in <module>
    sysvapp = SysVInitApp()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 958, in __init__
    self.context.loadInfo()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 303, in loadInfo
    rl.loadInfo()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 323, in loadInfo
    for filename in os.listdir(self.leveldir):
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport_python_hook.py", line 42, in apport_excepthook
    binary = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwdu(), sys.argv[0]))
IndexError: list index out of range

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 1472, in <module>
    sysvapp = SysVInitApp()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 958, in __init__
    self.context.loadInfo()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 303, in loadInfo
    rl.loadInfo()
  File "/usr/bin/serviceconfig", line 323, in loadInfo
    for filename in os.listdir(self.leveldir):
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d'

I only install apps from the archive.ubuntu.com repos and I don't upgrade (fresh install of new releases only).