-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote: > > > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >> Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems >>> (although there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the >>> RPMs involved). >> >> There seems there is still an odd "locking" problem when we >> launch update-menus from within %post scriptlet of an RPM >> (problems arises from the fact update-menus do itself an rpm >> call, "rpm -qa"), flepied spent a large amount of time trying to >> fix that before 9.2, actually had some success with some >> scenarios, thought he caught all of them, but apparently not >> really all, the problem being that it's very rare here and >> absolutely not reproductible :/. >> >> If *anyone* can reproduce it, please post here the steps to >> reproduce it, I'm sure we can come up with a fix quickly. But >> without it, it's a hell to debug. >> >> A workaround is to launch "update-menus" as root. > > > 1. Do an initial install with hd.img of 9.2, selecting everything > except servers. Include nfs client. > > 2. Then use software install to install all the kde* RPMs which were > not installed. > > 3. Note all the missing kicker panel big K menu items. > > 4. Running update-menus has no apparent effect. > > 5. Installing the Mandrake Updates solves the problem.
OK, so your reproducible case is that when you install some packages, the menus get broken, and when you install some other packages, they don't. Very reproducible. Not. - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/j7nGrJK6UGDSBKcRAnR+AJ9FcSdi5mECoHM6X4frP6cGJtStYQCgvU8P jJ7lVax1m/f4r1wPt7pliOs= =IvCP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
