Please Help!!!!!!
 

I installed Mozilla Mail from my Mandrake 9.2 CD's and for some reason, almost everything on my Start Applications Menu went away. The only things left are Networking, Recent Documents, Lock Screen, and Logout. I tried logging out and back in, restarting, uninstalling Mozilla Mail, logging in under Gnome instead of KDE.........nothing worked!

What the hell happened, and how do I get everything back? Is anyone familiar with this problem?

Run kappfinder, it is located under the settings menu (Menu Updating Tool).

It is a problem discussed many times in this forum.
Try this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ppearing+menus

Mandrake 9.2 is very dangerous, besides being buggy. Make sure to get a newer kernel too from updates ftp. The default one, 2.2.10 (I think) likes to toast some hardwares, as LG CD-roms...

I think you meant 2.4.10, and yea 9.2 is buggy till you get it all ironed out.

thanks mysterio. I've been really bad remembering numbers lately :). I'm using Mandrake now as my main desktop (9.2 Discovery) and I'm very happy with it. But it was way more hassle to get it up and running then Slack :S. Slack works right out the box ;). But Mandy is pretty nice, I've to say it ;)

I tried what was mentioned on the referred posting, namely "update-menus -v", and reinstalling the software in the upgrade mode. I STILL don't have my menus! Any other ideas?

Well I finally had to completely reload the operating system to get my menus back........ That is @###$@ ridiculous!

I too have had this problem several times and none of the fixes ever work, plus loosing konsole also don't help much. Many reinstall and updates done.