Re: missing Debian menus in KDE 3.2
On Saturday 13 March 2004 12:26 pm, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I recently upgraded to KDE 32. and initially it went fine except for the
> missing -dpi 100 in the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers file. On March 12, a
> routine upgrade mostly broke the menuing system and the toolbar.
>
> Most of the Debian menus are missing now along with all of my
> customizations. A lot of menu items appear in the "lost+found" entry.
> I have tried removing my .kde directory and rebuilding it but this does
> not cause the menus to reappear. Thre appears to be no place in the KDE
> Control Center to turn the Debian menus on and off.
>
> Running update-menus give errors due to already reported problems in
> /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps
> /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-dirs
>
> /usr/bin/kdm-update-menu and
> /etc/kde3/debian/kdm-update-menu.sh
> are missing form the kdm package and
>
> /usr/bin/kde-update-menu and
> /etc/kde3/debian/kde-update-menu.sh
> are missing form the kicker package. I get these from comparing with a
> sid system that has not yet been upgraded to KDE 3.2 so this may not be
> an accurate represenation of what has changed over the last upgrade.
>
> Any suggestions? Please cc to me as I am not subscribed to this list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carlo
The upgrade of "menu" from 2.1.9-5 to 2.1.10-1 either introduced a bug or
triggered a bug in the kde update-menu scripts (I think the latter).
Downgrading menu to 2.1.9-5 restored my Debian menus.
See bugs #237820 and #237260 for more info.
Josh Metzler
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