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Re: Debian Menus no longer come up



On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 02:25, Caleb Walker wrote:
> cwalker@butthead:~$ update-menus
> sh: line 1: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied
> Somewhere in input file:
> Indirectly used, but not defined function: "userprefix"
> /etc/menu-methods//gtk-menu: Aborting
> Update-menus[4863]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gtk-menu returned error
> status 1.
> cwalker@butthead:~$
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:25, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > On 05 Dec 2002 22:14:41 -0800
> > Caleb Walker <cwalker@cwalk.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus.  I
> > > have uninstalled and reinstalled the menu package to no avail.  The last
> > > thing that I have done is install the Bastille Hardening Script.  Does
> > > anyone have any ideas about this?
> > try #update-menus
> > from man update-menusNAME
> >        update-menus - generate Debian menu system
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Caleb Walker
> > Welcome and I hope it works.
> > 
> > Shawn
> > 

It needs to be run as root - when I tried it, I found that bbweather was
causing an error due to a bad title entry - I purged the package, and
have my Debian menus back in Gnome and KDE. Offhand, when I added
bbweather would have been around when the menus disappeared.
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