[Comm-en] Help!!! Menudrake killed my KDE menu!

[Comm-en] Help!!! Menudrake killed my KDE menu!

[Mark Donahue]

Hello all,

Big problem today.  I figured I would finally tackle reorganising the menu structure in KDE to something that makes a bit more sense to me.  I ran Menudrake from the KDE menu, saved the new settings... and nothing happened.

Next I entered the menu configuration (still Menudrake, of course) via the Alt Linux Control Center.  This time, when I saved, all my KDE menus disappeared! Is there a way to fix the situation without reinstalling KDE (I've put quite a bit of work into getting everything to work the way I want)?

Here is the error output when I tried running update-menus from the console (as root).  I found the same error text in the Russian mailing list- but I don't read any Russian, sorry.

Thanks for any help,

Mark

[root@mark-s /]# update-menus -n -v
Update-menus[4276]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
Update-menus[4276]: Reading installed packages...
Update-menus[4276]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
Update-menus[4276]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//kde
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//kde: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//kde returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//menu: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//menu returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//icewm
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//icewm: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//icewm returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications returned error status 1.

Re: [Comm-en] Help!!! Menudrake killed my KDE menu!

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:20:42PM +0200, Mark Donahue wrote:
> Here is the error output when I tried running update-menus from
> the console (as root).

Was menudrake run as root or as a user? (I've bounced the message
to menu maintainer -- don't know where menudrake puts the changes
or where *exactly* KDE looks for them but the point is to find
that and remove what breaks things)

> I found the same error text in the Russian mailing list- but I
> don't read any Russian, sorry.

Well you could try babelfish.altavista.com -- at least
www.atmsk.ru is well worth reading through in that way.

-- 
 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
  ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

Re: [Comm-en] Help!!! Menudrake killed my KDE menu!

[Sergey V Turchin]

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В сообщении от Чт 15 Июль 2004 01:20 Mark Donahue написал(a):

[...]

> "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends
> at) line 3: [...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././"
> title=""
su -
rm -f /etc/menu/menudrakeentry
update-menus -n -v

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