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Re: Disappearance of Applications/Debian menu in Gnome 2.10/unstable



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Barry Hawkins wrote:
> I recently (the last several days) had my Debian menu disappear from my
> GNOME Applications menu.  I checked for bug reports against menu,
> gnome-menus, and others but nothing looks like.  Didn't see anyone else
> report the issue in the mailing lists, either.  So, I am wondering, is
> this some phenomenon that longer-term GNOME users are aware and have a
> quick fix for?  Any insight would be appreciated.  BTW, running
> update-menus did not clear it up ;-).
[...]
Thanks to some poking around and help from Andrew Sackville-West, it
turns out some upgrade had removed menu-xdg.  Reinstalling restored my
precious Debian menu in GNOME.  Most likely it was a particular gnome
package upgrade that yanked stuff and didn't catch my attention.  It
shows up as removed but configured:

$ dpkg -l menu-xdg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                            Version
Description
+++-===============================-===============================-==============================================================================
rc  menu-xdg                        0.2
freedesktop.org menu compliant window manager scripts

So, I went into aptitude and selected menu-xdg for installation, which
went through fine:
...
Selecting previously deselected package menu-xdg.
(Reading database ... 231863 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking menu-xdg (from .../archives/menu-xdg_0.2_all.deb) ...
Setting up menu-xdg (0.2) ...
...

Debian menu is back, presto.  Hope that helps others, and thanks again
to Andrew.

Regards,
- --
Barry Hawkins
site: www.bytemason.org
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

Registered Linux User #368650
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