i’ve been trying to edit kmenu but all atempts produce the same results, it starts starting then the window just disappears (and taskbar item disappears, with NO error messages)
tried:
right click on kmenu>menu editor
kmenu>preferences>control centre looknfeel>panels>menus>edit k menu
clicked “system” after typing “menudrake” and got error
[dave@hayes ~]$ su
Password:
[root@hayes dave]# menudrake
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08204380 ***
clicked “root” after typing “menudrake” and got error:
Aborted
[root@hayes dave]# menudrake
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
Segmentation fault
[root@hayes dave]#
[ot]i don’t know what to do - i only wanted to add opera to the kmenu[/ot]
please help !!!
EDIT: there is also a shutdow error that occures now and then (not always) and “KDEInit could not launch kontact-kmail.sh” occasionally after clicking KMail on panel
For now you can create another shortcut someplace else, such as your desktop. However, it does sound like you have a problem. Try running the following as root:update-menus -v…if there are any errors, please post them.
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For now you can create another shortcut someplace else, such as your desktop. However, it does sound like you have a problem. Try running the following as root:update-menus -v…if there are any errors, please post them.
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typed “update-menus -v” (presume command means update menus and varify)
Password:
[root@hayes dave]# update-menus -v
update-menus[4927]: Checking if urpmi is running (and waiting for it to finish if needed)
update-menus[4927]: urpmi is not locking urpmi status area, good.
update-menus[4927]: Reading installed packages list...
[root@hayes dave]# update-menus[4927]: Reading translation rules in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus.
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /etc/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 0 menu entries found (0 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/lib/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 364 menu entries found (364 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 364 menu entries found (728 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/default/.
update-menus[4927]: 364 menu entries found (1092 total).
update-menus[4927]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/.
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/menu
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/twm
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-menu-spec
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/icewm
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-app
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-dir
update-menus[4927]: Reading translation rules in /etc/menu-methods/simplified/tr
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /etc/menu/simplified/.
update-menus[4927]: 0 menu entries found (1092 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/lib/menu/simplified/.
update-menus[4927]: 78 menu entries found (1170 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /etc/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 78 menu entries found (1248 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/lib/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 442 menu entries found (1690 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/.
update-menus[4927]: 442 menu entries found (2132 total).
update-menus[4927]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/default/.
update-menus[4927]: 442 menu entries found (2574 total).
update-menus[4927]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/simplified/.
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/simplified/simplified-xdg-
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/simplified/simplified-xdg-
update-menus[4927]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/simplified/simplified-xdg-
[root@hayes dave]#
what next ?
Looks like it worked fine. Why not try editing the menus once more?
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Looks like it worked fine. Why not try editing the menus once more?
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tried typing “menudrake” and received this error, after appearing to load, loads icons, but disappears after sorting applications
[dave@hayes ~]$ menudrake
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
attribute |"true"| in "?package(mozilla-firefox)" is invalid
Segmentation fault
[dave@hayes ~]$
window didn’t appear “cilck root or system”