On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 12:11, Thomas Backlund wrote: > From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's > no > > > > terminal on the menu either! > > > > > > > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't > run > > > X - > > > > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > > > > > > > Doc > > > > > > > > > > So when you are at the console... > > > login as root... and do: > > > > > > #update-menus -v > > > > > > and you should be Ok... > > > > > > (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Thomas > > > > Actually from my experience it does do something... It just doesn't tell > > you it's doing it(without the -v switch). It dives into the background > > and if you wait a few minutes it will produce results. > > > > Are you sure? If so... everything is OK... > > There were some discussions on the Cooker ML that -v was needed > due to some bug in update-menus... but I have never needed to use > update-menus yet... so I was only posting what I learned from cooker... > > Regards > > Thomas
Well up to 9.1 I never had a problem. And to test it I just did the following in 9.2. Run update-menus (user or root) then run top and watch all of the various programs it calls come up then disappear. James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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