Hello,
I'm using MDK 9.1, I opened MenuDrake to add a new item.
But once I save it, everything was gone in my menu... And I'm nopt able to get it back.
I still see the folders, but without icons and all are empty...

Any idea how to solve that very very annoying prbl???

Thxs in advance
Ludo

in a terminal

update-menus -v

(no need to be root)

Thxs, I have everything back

Cheers
Ludo

I am facing the same problem. I am using Mandrake 9.2. Why does it remove the menu items? Is this a bug?

Anyway, I tried the 'update-menus -v' but my menus are still missing. This is what I see after running the command. What is wrong?

Update-menus[27459]: update-menus run by user -- cannot determine if dpkg is locking /var/lib/dpkg/lock: assuming there is no lock
Update-menus[27459]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
sh: line 1: /bin/rpm: Permission denied
Update-menus[27459]: Reading installed packages...
Update-menus[27459]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /home/nalvin/.menu/
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
Update-menus[27459]: Running menu-methods in /home/nalvin/.menu-methods/
Update-menus[27459]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//twm
Cannot open file /home/nalvin//.twm//menudefs.hook
Unknown Error
/etc/menu-methods//twm: Aborting
Update-menus[27459]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm returned error status 1.
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//kde3
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.kde/share/applnk-mdk-simplified/.directory': No such file or directory
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//icewm
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk/.directory': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk-simplified/.directory': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk/mdk' to `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk-simplified': No such file or directory
Update-menus[27459]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /home/nalvin/.menu-simplified/
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/simplified/
Update-menus[27459]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/simplified/
Update-menus[27459]: Running menu-methods in /home/nalvin/.menu-simplified-methods/
Update-menus[27459]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/simplified/
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods/simplified//kde3
Can't stat /home/nalvin/.kde/share/applnk-mdk-simplified: No such file or directory
at /usr/bin/savekdemimetypes.pl line 44
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.kde/share/applnk-mdk-simplified/.directory': No such file or directory
Update-menus[27459]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods/simplified//gnome
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk/.directory': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk-simplified/.directory': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk/mdk' to `/home/nalvin/.gnome2/apps-mdk-simplified': No such file or directory


RedBox

Try inserting CD1 into the drive and rebooting. When prompted, choose upgrade. This is an alternate fix to the "menus-update -v" command.

Clark

Thanks for the suggestions clarks. I did not try what you said but I did get it to work finally. It was a permission issue. When I first installed Mandrake 9.2, I set the security to 'Paranoid' and it won't let a normal user log in.

I remembered that and decided to try lowering the security setting. When I had the menu trouble, it was set to 'highest'. So I set it down a notch to 'higher' and tried the 'update-menus' again and it worked this time!!


RedBox

I had the same problem - thanks for the fix.

Do we know why this happens? Should I just avoid editing menus? Is there a new version of the editor that doesn't have this problem?

Any advice?

Thanks again.
Mike