Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker

[Vincent Danen]

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 11:34 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:

Ok... have you tried opening up a term in wmaker and then running
"update-menus" as a user?

That should give you your mdk menus.

Should but unfortunately doesn't... Even after a restart of Wmaker. The
error is that it can't load the applications menu and says output has
been sent to console.... loaded xconsole to try and caputure this
output but no dice. IF I open the windowmaker config tool I can get the
stock wmaker menu but still am unable to get the Mandrake version.

Did you cat .xsession-errors?

First thing I did (just fired up wmaker here on 9.0). Last thing it says is:

sh: line 1: /lib/cpp: No such file or directory

check /lib/cpp with ls -l and it's pointing to a non-existent file (dangling symlink)

Create the link /usr/bin/cpp to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp. Log out then log back in. Oh. Don't even need to log out then back in again.

Looks like update-alternatives is a little messed up. Wierd thing is, checking "rpm -q --scripts gcc-cpp" there is a call to update-alternatives.

If I execute the exact same thing as %postinstall in gcc-cpp, I get the symlink properly created.

Looks like something for an errata.

Also looks like someone beat me to it. Ah well.

Anyways, I've added this to the 9.0 errata since others may encounter the same problem.

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