On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 13:11, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:51, Robert Crawford wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:28, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: > > > > I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, > > > > found my menus gone! > > > > > > > > Now, I can fix this by mv .kde .kdeold, then restarting kde, whereupon > > > > the menus reappear, but this is a sledgehammer and nut fix, which > > > > involves resetting all my themes, window decorations, datafiles, moving > > > > or recreating the resource and config files in .kde/share and config etc > > > > etc. Not to mention that my home directory is getting a bit littered with > > > > kdeold, kdeoldest, kdestuffed etc etc > > > > > > > > Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. > > > > As previously posted, I get the same result if I try editing the menu > > > > using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User > > > > menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! > > > > > > > > There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt > > > > > > > > All ideas welcome!!! > > > > > > Does update-menus run as the user bring them back? > > > > > > James > > > > I seem to recall when this was happening to me, there was a kde config file > > that kept getting overwritten somehow- if I think of it, I'll post, but > > really the fix seems to be upgrade to Tex's stuff. I've not had one problem > > like that since I did. I think people (me included) went back and forth on > > pclinux online about this, so probably those threads are still there if > > you're interested. > > > > James- that update-menus trick worked for me a few times, but it always > > reverted to the overwritten file. I'm trying to recall exactly what action > > instigated this, but at present, it escapes me. > > > > Robert Crawford > > Robert > > Now that you mention it.. I'm on Texstar's rpms myself as well. Have > been since about 3 days after 9.1 came out. In fact 3.1.2 runs like a > top on my box. While I check things out locally.. I've one question for > John on his box. Has he done upgrades at all. Thought here is that I > know kdmrc (/usr/share/config/kdm/) has changed. If the new one is > still there as kdmrc.rpmnew moving this to kdmrc will help a number of > things (this file did change.) and I remember it causing me a plethora > of problems till I did this. Now the menu is assembled from the > structure in ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk. Is this directory structure > present? > > James
John, One other thought... and this is hardly a fix but rather a shortcut to future repairs. Once you have it running right. do a cp -a .kde kde-bkp Then if it does it again before we figure out what is happening you can rm -Rf .kde cp -a kde-bkp .kde update-menus This is a real hack and not a fix. But until the problem is found it will save you time. James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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