digby Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 (edited) Well, I don't quite know what I did this time... I was using RPMdrake to browse through some games looking for a chess game and some scorched earth clone I head heard about. I seleted a couple of other itmes that looked interesting as well. After telling the gui to install everything, I got an error that my contrib source (raven.cslab.vt.edu)'s list was out of date. And now over half the programs in the Gnome menu have disappeared and all of the icons that were once colorful have changed to gray-green folders. Any thoughts? -EDIT- Ok... after all this, I was installing XMMS ( # urpmi xmms) All the programs came back. Everything is just like it should be except the top level menu. Everything that should be there is, but it's ugly. Did the other stuff come back because urpmi added something new? -Re-re-edit- Restarted the X Server and everything is fine now... but that didn't fix it before. After all this started happening, I turned the computer off (thunderstorms kill my uptime) and nothing changed. It wasn't until I installed XMMS... everything works fine now, but I'd love for someone to explain what happend and how I fixed it. Edited March 21, 2004 by digby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 Whenever you install new software, Mandrake runs menu-update and that sorts out the menu. So, what caused your problem? = a bug (most likely). What fixed your problem? = menu-update. You can run menu-update on your own as well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digby Posted March 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 makes sense. so is the command just menu-update (as root, I assume)? and thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 update-menus -v is the command Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 update-menus -v is the command Yeah, sorry - I should have mentioned that in my original post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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