Re: debian-menu
Dne so 24. května 2003 09:33 Karolina Lindqvist napsal(a):
> fredagen den 23 maj 2003 16.37 skrev Dirk Reiss:
> > the thing is that update-menus finally runs this kde-update-script
> > and as i do not have the /var/lib/kde-dir present (for whatever reason)
> > it cannot update the menus...
>
> I tried removing /var/lib/kde, then running update-menu, and update-menu
> was recreating the directory tree. If it does not do that for you, it
> sounds like something is wrong with update-menu, or maybe with the
> /etc/menumethods/kicker script.
>
> > any ideas where this directory could be gone and why? i really
> > didnt delete it by hand...
>
> It has happened to me too that config files disappear "by themselves", and
> I am 100% sure I didn't do it. Due to a "feature" of debian, if a config
> file disappears, reinstallation or upgrading a package does not put it
> back. Purging and reinstallation does, though, as does dpkg
> --force-confmiss. Maybe that's what have happened to you? Check that
> /etc/menu-methods/kicker is there. There should also be a menu.conf and
> menu.h in that directory.
Maybe update-menus needs to be run as root?
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Petr Balas (petr at balas dot cz)
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