On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 4:53 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:38, D. R. Evans wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > > I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems > > > to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found > > > there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it > > > rebuilt all menus and desktop links. > > > > No such program on my installation. > > > > This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? > > > > Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed > > that you can do almost nothing?!! > > > > I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the > > _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, > > and this immediately bit me. > > > > I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 > > once the installation is complete :-) > > > > Doc > > Doc, > > That's because the program is in /usr/bin/ not /usr/sbin. I think > the original poster had a finger slip.(Like I haven't done this a few > hundred times myself.) To verify just type which update-menus and it > will tell you full path. Or better yet just type update-menus, and it > will run. (Warning it doesn't look like anything happens, since it > immediately returns, don't worry it runs in the background for a couple > of minutes before the menu's reappear.) The program that supplies this > is menu-2.1.5-123mdk, and this is one disk 1 of your 9.2 disks. This is > a manditory rpm so it should be already on you disk. > > james
I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry If you run update-menus -d It will highlight any malformed lines for you In my case the problem was a line reading ?package(menu): needs="fluxbox" icon="applications_section.png" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title="" charset="utf8" The null "title" is not permitted. Just inserting some text here fixed it for me after running update-menus again as root and as user derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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