derxen Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I updated gconf, gconf 2 and orbit last night (plus a few of the other bugfixes on Mandrake update), and now a large part of the gnome menu is gone, including all the pretty icons (just folder icons now). This happened before, when I installed icewm-gnome, and I 'solved' it then by removing icewm-gnome. Does anyone know how this happens and what to do about it? derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schussat Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 The nearly exact thing happened to me yesterday, Derxen. Seeing that all that was left of my menu was the gnome part (the mdk-build menu had vanished), I assumed that something got a little wonky during an update, so I rebooted. Bad idea: Gnome got flaky, giving me errors trying to load the background and panel tasklist. To restore the menu, I reset the menu style in menudrake to show the full menu, and I had to do the same thing in menudrake as a user -- for some reason, the menu settings got all disjointed, so that my user menus were not using the system defaults. Doing this, for whatever reason, also seems to have corrected the gnome errors, and I don't have any explanation for that. However, while that brought back the mandrake menus, it didn't bring them back the way they had previously been: Where the gnome menu once contained all the mandrake items (Amusements, Applications, etc), it now has a submenu for "Mandrake," and that submenu contains the additional items. So, I'm one level of menus further away from all those items than I used to be. At least I have menus, I guess, but I'd love to know how to really restore them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I got the same crap in kde (new 9.2 install). What I did was start up menudrake and reloaded the user config and system menu and then saved each. This seems to fix whatever bug has surfaced here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 good idea scoopy. This is one of those, 'better out of X in init3 without gnome running' situations. Especially if you automatically save session (don't when upgrading anything gnome). So, if scoppy's idea doesn't work you'll have to poke around the fs and mv or delete some stuff. http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=8...8771&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted October 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Thanks. I just updated the system menu and it's back to normal. Weird bug that, I never came across it before. I assumed that something got a little wonky during an update, so I rebooted. Bad idea: Gnome got flaky Yeah, rebooting was my first reflex too, but I managed to control myself. it didn't bring them back the way they had previously been: Where the gnome menu once contained all the mandrake items (Amusements, Applications, etc), it now has a submenu for "Mandrake," and that submenu contains the additional items. Hmm. So it might still go wrong. I'll tell you what happened after starting up tomorrow. derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schussat Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Some success here! Scoopy's suggestion of rebuilding the menus in menudrake seems to work -- partly. It still results in gnome reporting errors when loading the background and tasklist (these are corrected by rebooting), but it does bring back the menus in "mandrake style" (ie, the original menu style, with the mdk menus included rather than linked as a submenu). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I have no trouble at all anymore: the old menu is back and I don't get any error messages. derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 When this happened to me, I only had to start menudrake, save, and close. It restored everything. (I am in kde.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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