On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 07:08, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2003 09:38 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > > On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > > James Conner wrote: > > > > On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > > > > I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends > > > > system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went > > > > peachy, only lost the menu's once. That bug/feature was fixed with > > > > these patches. Seems quite nice. Now we just got to install all of > > > > plf's stuff and contribs, plus configure a few apps. > > > > > > I don't think the disappearing menu 'feature' was fixed since I lost my > > > menu couple of times on two different machines since applying the > > > patches. > > > > > > Avi > > > > What exactly is the "disappearing menu 'feature' "?? Thanks. > > There is a bug in the version of rpm that shipped with 9.2 that causes the rpm > database to remain locked for a longer period of time. This causes a problem > for a postinstall script within a package that tries to update the menus. > Because the database is locked, the postinstall script cannot retrieve the > package names from the database, so the menu is not populated with any > entries. > > This is easily fixed by the user by running the update-menus script from a > console as root user. > > # update-menus -v
OK Since Greg did such a clear job of stating the problem and a work around above, I just used his words, to submit a bug report. It's number #30 if anyone here would care/be so kind as to add to it. James
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