Re: update-menus problem with potato
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
... as its format is evidently fscked.
Sean
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
>
> i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as
> potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that
> update-menus doesn't run throug correctly, but i can't find the problem.
>
> running on the new system shows:
>
> > gerdk@testgk8 gerdk >more update-menus.log
> > In file "/usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 22:
> > [...]"x11" package="xbase-clients" section="Apps/Tools"
> > [...] ^
> > Missing (or empty) tag: title
> > This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
> > Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
> > tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
> > isn't literal
> > /etc/menu-methods//asclassic: Aborting
>
> and so on for all other things update-menus should do...
>
> testing on an older system runnung already potato shows:
>
> > root@stardust /root >update-menus
> > In file "/etc/menu-methods//afterstep", at (or in the definition that ends at) l
> > ine 32:
> > startmenu= "PopUp \"" $section "\"\n" Title title() "\"\n"
> > ^
> > Unknown function: "Title"
> > /etc/menu-methods//afterstep: Aborting
> > Update-menus[3535]: Script /etc/menu-methods//afterstep returned error status 1.
> > root@stardust /root >
>
> what to do?
>
> gerhard
>
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