Guest securitybreach Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 I have Mandrake 10.1 community and when I start menudrake, the dialog stops at creating standard structure then closes. Also, when I run it through the shell: security@pcp02904856pcs security]$ menudrake Segmentation fault (core dumped) I have tried to uninstall and reinstall with no luck If anyone could help it would be gretly appreciated. Thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 It probably means something is missing. Try to update Mandrake. Else look in the list of packages not installed for 'drak'. Install the most likely. PS. Can you use the menu-option in the MCC--> System? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest securitybreach Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 (edited) Can you use the menu-option in the MCC--> System? That doesnt work either, same thing happens Edited October 19, 2004 by securitybreach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeTwister Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 Got the same problem: [carl@elysium carl]$ menudrake attribute |/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/Configuration\/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid Segmentation fault Any ideas? I have uninstall/reinstalled menudrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mimosinnet Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 I am having the same problem with the same error. The thread has finished without a solution. Have you been able to get a solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Welcome to the board. There have been some updates recently, what version of menudrake do you have installed? in a consol type: rpm -qa | grep menudrake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrake_alf Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Welcome to the board.There have been some updates recently, what version of menudrake do you have installed? in a consol type: rpm -qa | grep menudrake <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well, my experience with menudrake is that it COMPLETE TRASHED my kde menu and once it happened, it kept happening and i was unable to find any help with it. In a way I'm kinda glad it happened because it got me using 'Fluxbox' which I have found is so easy to use. About 4 to 6 text files in $HOME/.fluxbox/ directory (depending on what functionality you want to use). Compare that to all the ?hit you get with KDE.. <g> oh welll... just letting off a little hot air and hope someone else might take a look at fluxbox and find it as useful as I did.. mike.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdservices Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) Welcome to the board.There have been some updates recently, what version of menudrake do you have installed? in a consol type: rpm -qa | grep menudrake <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Anyone solve this problem? I have updated all my 10.1 kmenu and mandrake-desk packages and stiil have the same error from menudrake viz. attribute |/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/Configuration\/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid Segmentation fault Thanks Andrew Edited February 16, 2005 by fdservices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdservices Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 It appears to be an error in the added-by-mandrake file. The error is: Reading menu-entry files in /home/andrew/.menu/. In file "/home/andrew/.menu/added_by_menudrake", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 171: [...]ection.png" needs="x11" title="System\" section="/" charset="utf8" [...] ^ (cedilla under the "/") Expected: "=" Skipping file because of errors... Lines 171 and 172 read: ?package(menu): icon="applications_section.png" needs="x11" title="System\" section="/" charset="utf8" ?package(menu): icon="applications_section.png" needs="x11" title="System" section="System\/" charset="utf8" the section="/" appears in several lines before and after this one, so I wonder just what is the error? Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdservices Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 In case this is helpful the file added_by_menudrake was very corrupt and after I cleaned it by hand things started to go right again. Now I have to see whats missing from the menus Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophe_ca Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 When I try running menudrake via console I get a :"Segmentation fault" Any ideas? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Open a console, log in as root and type: urpmi.update updates && urpmi --media update --auto-select. Then try menudrake again. If that doesn worj look in the tips and tricks section for the repair script by Steve Scrimpshire Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lärs Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 (edited) Heh, if you're interested, you should try a lightweight window manager instead of using KDE. I use BlackBox myself. I even made my own style/theme for it. You see, with BlackBox, you do get a hi-tech look, yet you don't get all the icons on the desktop and nice yet unnecessary eye candy KDE gives you. All you really have is your menu, and the ToolBar to change windows and view the time. With BlackBox, you don't have to run an App to change the menu. Editing the menu is as simple as writing to a textfile :P . However, it is your call. I recently made the switch from KDE, and I do not regret it at all. BlackBox is very fast, reliable, and I have not had an error with it yet that was not on my part . If you install BlackBox, however, make sure you get BlackBox version 0.70. You can get the rpm from Norlug's RPM's. Maybe Easy-URPMI as well. That is just a small suggestion I recommend, you do not have to take it. Oh and by the way, MenuDrake will not run in other WM's than KDE, but as I've said, with BlackBox you do not need to use MenuDrake at all (in fact it will not do anything). Good Luck! Edited April 24, 2005 by Lärs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophe_ca Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Heh, if you're interested, you should try a lightweight window manager instead of using KDE. I use BlackBox myself. I even made my own style/theme for it. You see, with BlackBox, you do get a hi-tech look, yet you don't get all the icons on the desktop and nice yet unnecessary eye candy KDE gives you. All you really have is your menu, and the ToolBar to change windows and view the time. With BlackBox, you don't have to run an App to change the menu. Editing the menu is as simple as writing to a textfile :P . However, it is your call. I recently made the switch from KDE, and I do not regret it at all. BlackBox is very fast, reliable, and I have not had an error with it yet that was not on my part . If you install BlackBox, however, make sure you get BlackBox version 0.70. You can get the rpm from Norlug's RPM's. Maybe Easy-URPMI as well. That is just a small suggestion I recommend, you do not have to take it. Oh and by the way, MenuDrake will not run in other WM's than KDE, but as I've said, with BlackBox you do not need to use MenuDrake at all (in fact it will not do anything). Good Luck! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are right. It's easy to use and quite different of KDE. Did you try Xfce? Worth it to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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