On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:06:49 -0500
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment:

> I was showing a friend how menudrake worked last night and selected the
> Save icon without making any changes.  After which my KMenu no longer
> shows any entries (other than 'Run command', 'Lock' 'Shutdown'...all my
> program entries are gone!
> 
> I searched the archives to and found some similar situations that were
> apparently fixed by running 'update-menus -v' as root.  However, I get
> the following output showing the command aborting (only the first half
> of output is shown, but the gist can be seen):
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# update-menus -v
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# Update-menus[4811]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status
> area. Good.
> Update-menus[4811]: Reading installed packages...
> Update-menus[4811]: Reading translate info in
> /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
> Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
> Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
> Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
> Update-menus[4811]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
> Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
> In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends
> at) line 6:
> [...] package="menu" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title=""
> [...]                                                 ^
> Missing (or empty) tag: title
> This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
> Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
> tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
> isn't literal
> /etc/menu-methods//menu: Aborting
> Update-menus[4811]: Script /etc/menu-methods//menu returned error status
> 1.
> Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//twm
> In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends
> at) line 6:
> [...] package="menu" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title=""
> [...]                                                 ^
> Missing (or empty) tag: title
> This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
> Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
> tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
> isn't literal
> /etc/menu-methods//twm: Aborting
> Update-menus[4811]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm returned error status
> 1.
> Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//enlightenment
> In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends
> at) line 6:
> [...] package="menu" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title=""


Edit  /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, and where it has title="", make it
title="Style"  (actually *any* word will fix it).

Then re-run "update-menus -v" as root.

This is a known combo-bug (new techie term!) caused by Fluxbox and RPM.  You
might check that you have updated copies of both, but editing the above line
will fix it.

Believe me, I have done it a couple or triple dozen times in the last few
weeks, running Cooker as they got this solved. ;-)

Tim

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