On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 1:09 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 02 Jan 2004 10:36 pm, John wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2004 04:58 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > On Friday 02 Jan 2004 9:21 pm, John wrote: > > > > On Friday 02 January 2004 03:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Friday 02 January 2004 20:28, John wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you followed the advice at > > > > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/FiveStarNews ? > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > I have downloaded all the updates and installed for 9.2. I ran > > > > the save configuration through menudrake which updates and also > > > > tried the update-menus -v. Am I still missing a step here? > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > > > If you have the fluxbox RPM installed then your menu files will be > > > corrupted due to a mistake in the fluxbox packaging. > > > > > > Look in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry Look for a line containing > > > > > > section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title="" > > > > > > Put some text - any text- between the last pair of quotes and run > > > update-menus again. > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > derek > > > > Hi Derek > > I checked for the fluxbox entry but did not see any lines. I did have > > a lot of lines starting with question marks that stated: 1. needs > > ="kde" section or 2. needs = "x11" section. I installed the 2 rpm > > updates. Should that have corrected this? > > Thanks > > John > > As far as I know the rpm update fixes all the issue with menus apart from > the fluxbox one I mentioned. > > derek I should have added to my last post that running update-menus -v will produce a verbose output which should give you a clue where update-menus is failing (as it obviously is or else your menus would be complete)
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