Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > Hi Dave, > >> Thanks for your help to this point, Laca. Unfortunately, I'm still not >> quite there. The chroot'ed run of postrun-runq seems to generate a >> correct /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (as I can copy it to an >> installed system and get a launch menu populated with all the >> applications just like I normally would), but when I run the Live DVD I >> still get nothing in the Applications, Preferences, or Administration >> sub-menus, as well as none of the Firefox/Staroffice/Thunderbird entries >> on the top level. So I'm guessing there's some piece of Gnome >> infrastructure that's not being started that needs to be. I'll probably >> resort to looking at process lists and stuff, but any clues that can be >> dispensed would be helpful. > > It sounds as if SUNWgnome-panel-root wasn't installed.
The log says it was added successfully. > These menus are populated using the .menu files in /etc/xdg/menus. The ones on my image are identical to those on my build 42 desktop. > You can try truss'ing /usr/bin/gnome-menu-spec-test and compare the > result with a system that works. > I can't find gnome-menu-spec-test anywhere on any systems I have installed, let alone in /usr/bin, so I'm kind of stymied on this one. Any ideas why that would be the case? Dave
