On Saturday 22 November 2003 13:52, Marc wrote: > A couple of days ago I helped a friend install 9.1 on a computer > that he had just built. Soyo dragon mobo 80 geg hdd 512 MB of DDR > Several applications crashed constantly, Galeon, open office > seemed to both be constant sources of trouble there seemed to be > a number of other things that were just not quite right. That was > when we started to think that something had just gone wrong in > the installation. Good thing I gad just finished downloading 9.2 > and the third CD was just coming off the burner. > We decided to give 9.2 a try. Before burning I had run md5sums > to check the download it looked OK. We reformatted the whole > hard drive and the installation went smooth, everything seemed to > be working fine. > After a couple days things started to go wrong. Newly > installed packages did not show up on the K menu. Some file > associations seemed to just get lost. Mozilla and Galeon started > to crash all the time and other applications started to disappear > off the k menu. We ran memtest and the memory appears to be OK. > This is all starting to seem like a hardware problem but I cant > quite put my finger on what it might be. > Anyone here have any ideas? > Marc, you have the infamous "missing icons" problem. This is a bug in 9.2. Drove me crazy until Derek gave me the key. I'll take the liberty of quoting Derek :
"To get your menus back if you lose them:- Ctl+Alt+F1 to get a text console. log in as root then update-menus -v Ctl+Alt+F7 to go back to X. Your menus will now be normal." Furthermore, if you installed fluxbox, there another bug : "When you run 'update-menus -v' do you see some text about a syntax error in a line about fluxbox? If so edit /etc/menu/menudrakeentry find the line causing the problem. I think it is this one ?package(menu): needs="fluxbox" icon="applications_section.png" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title="" charset="utf8" and insert some text (any text) between the quotes after 'title=' Then run update-menus again" HTH Kaj Haulrich.
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