Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:06 -0400, Dave Miner wrote: >> I have an installation[1] of nv_41 which, when logged in as root, >> contains no applications on the main launch menu; by this I mean that >> the "All Applications" sub-menu is empty, and the top-level entries for >> web browser et al are missing. Any suggestions on where to start in >> figuring out why this is the case? >> >> Dave >> >> [1] This isn't a standard installation, it's a prototype for the Live >> Media project, thus I'm assuming the problem is in the construction >> process I'm using since my standard installs of nv_41 do not exhibit >> this behavior. > > I suspect this is because some postinstall stuff that normally gets > executed at first reboot never gets executed. In build 41, these > commands are: > /usr/bin/update-desktop-database > /usr/bin/update-mime-database > ls -d /usr/share/icons/* | xargs -l1 /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache > > How exactly do you install the pkgs? >
They're pkgadd'ed into an area just as they would be for a normal installation, but there is a great deal of post-processing to turn that into a bootable DVD, so anything that's done by a normal pkgadd is there to start with. What executes the above commands on the first reboot? Dave > Laca > >
