Thanks for everbodies help - the only solution was to use GnoRPM to first verify all gnome graphical desktop packages and then re-install all that had errors by upgrading with the "allow replacement of packages" option enabled in the preferences. This process seemed possible only with GnoRPM and not Mandrake software manager rpmdrake. Thanks and by, Morgan.
>You might be able to undisable them with menudrake (either as root to >configure system menu, or as a user to configure your individual menu) > >Do you have the problem in all users? If not you can simply create a new >account for yourself. > >derek > > > >On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:35:12 +1200 >Morgan Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for your help, but Civileme's script seems to report every menu >>entry: >> >> "...has been disabled >> check your menus" >> >> any ideas about "undiableing" them? >> >> Morgan >> >> > >> >If you are lucky simply running >> >updates-menus >> >might fix it for you. (try it as a user, then as root) >> > >> >Also try removing that .desktop icon you tried inserting in the menu. I do >> >not >> >know about Gnome, but I know that with KDE a corrupted menu entry will >>cause >> >the entire menu to crap out. >> > >> >If you search through the archives >> >(http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ ) Civileme once >> >wrote a script to check menus for corrupted entries. >> > >> >derek >> > >> > >> >derek >> >On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 6:44 am, Morgan Read wrote: >> >> I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the "GnoRPM" tool >>asked >> >> me where to put a ".desktop" icon that turned out to put an icon in the >> >> "main menu". >> >> >> >> Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their >> >> might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity to) >> >> the mac's "apple menu" buried somewhere in the system, I went to >> >> investigate... >> >> >> >> So, I logged in as root and went sniffing around in >> >> "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" and "usr/share/gnome/programs"... >> >> And, now the "main menu" has disappeared! >> >> >> >> No surprise to some I guess? The only thing I changed was the "Gnome >>Color >> >> Selector" that I opened in "gedit": changed the "comment [en_GB]" and >>"name >> >> [en_GB]" to "Gnome Colour Selector" (fair enough, I thought...). I >>opened >> >> some other files with "gedit" just for a look, but closed them without >> >> saving. >> >> >> >> First, as I was browsing with "nautilus" in the "Programs" directory >>(I may >> >> also have been browsing with gedit's file open dialogue) I noticed >>that all >> >> the Mandrake menu's had gone (yup, I looked in >> >> "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" before I looked in >> >> "usr/share/gnome/programs"). Then, after I closed "nautilus" and "gedit" >> >> and logged out of root and back into my account - holding my breath the >> >> whole time - I found the whole "main menu" had gone. I got an error >> >> message that the "main menu" couldn't be found... >> >> >> >> Any help with my "investigation" and putting the "main menu" back >>would be >> >> really appreciated. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Morgan. >> -- >> Morgan Read >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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