All my entries in my menu have disappeared. I was using Menudrake to change some entries and the next time I clicked the K, everything was gone. My shortcuts on the taskbar stopped working too, and were gone the next time I restarted KDE.

I know this problem has occurred many times but none of the solutions I've read have worked. I've tried both "update-menus -v" and Menudrake|Save as a normal user and as root. I've never managed to get anything back. I might be doing it wrong, so if someone knows, please give me step by step instructions. I updated Menudrake to 0.7.4-4mdk, but nothing seems to have changed.

Here is what worked for me. Simply re-install but choose upgrade existing system. Good luck!

I would definitely rather avoid that, but if there's no more ideas by tomorrow night I guess I'll have to do it. Thanks for your answer.

When you upgrade your system with the same Distro you don't lose any data.....................
Everything will still be intact, it just tends to fix things that are messed up.

you need to open a terminal from within X, and run (hopefully you have a launcher on the panel)

menudrake

there is an option to rebuild the menu... (not xactly sure where it is at but it is there I had to use it a few times) this will fix the issue. no need to reinstall.

I've tried almost everything in Menudrake. Neither Reload user config or Reload system menu have helped, so I'm not sure what else to do there.

do you have the updates installed? there was a bug with disappearing menus.. you may need that fix first.

I have 0.7.4-4mdk (from cooker) so that should be the newest version.

The same thing happened to me after installing the bug fixes . My solution was going to MenuDrake and not only loading the user and system config, but pressing the "save" button. After I closed MenuDrake my menu was back to normal. Hope that works!

:-D

I just tried that and it worked! Run menudrake as root; reload user config; reload system config; save and it's back!

Thanks a lot to everyone for helping me.

After the updates are done, in a shell in root type update-menus -a
this will bring back the menus and they will stay.