Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 08:37 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >> Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems >> > (although there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the >> > RPMs involved). >> >> There seems there is still an odd "locking" problem when we >> launch update-menus from within %post scriptlet of an RPM >> (problems arises from the fact update-menus do itself an rpm >> call, "rpm -qa"), flepied spent a large amount of time trying to >> fix that before 9.2, actually had some success with some >> scenarios, thought he caught all of them, but apparently not >> really all, the problem being that it's very rare here and >> absolutely not reproductible :/. >> >> If *anyone* can reproduce it, please post here the steps to >> reproduce it, I'm sure we can come up with a fix quickly. But >> without it, it's a hell to debug. >> >> A workaround is to launch "update-menus" as root. > > > I'll see what I can do maybe you guys dont use kde. but in at least 3 or 4 > fresh installs when ever you install any package with a menu for kde this > happens. It does fine if you get them all during install but if you install > any kde apps after the os is installed this happens as well as all the icons > missing off kicker. It is rather annoying.
Aha, maybe that's just the problem! KDE caches the menu; I believe 60 seconds by default. So you have to not look at the menu for 60 seconds, or log out and in and the menu should appear OK again.
