Hi Dave, > Thanks for your help to this point, Laca. Unfortunately, I'm still not > quite there. The chroot'ed run of postrun-runq seems to generate a > correct /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (as I can copy it to an > installed system and get a launch menu populated with all the > applications just like I normally would), but when I run the Live DVD I > still get nothing in the Applications, Preferences, or Administration > sub-menus, as well as none of the Firefox/Staroffice/Thunderbird entries > on the top level. So I'm guessing there's some piece of Gnome > infrastructure that's not being started that needs to be. I'll probably > resort to looking at process lists and stuff, but any clues that can be > dispensed would be helpful.
It sounds as if SUNWgnome-panel-root wasn't installed. These menus are populated using the .menu files in /etc/xdg/menus. You can try truss'ing /usr/bin/gnome-menu-spec-test and compare the result with a system that works. Laca
