Home.desktop doesn't work

Tsukasa · 04-09-2004, 10:15 AM

I have Mandrake 9.2 and I work with KDE 3.1

before few days, the appliction 'Home.desktop' stoped work. (I can't enter to my home directory with this appliction - [home icon])

What's the problem? I checked in Google, but I haven't find any answer yet.

kilgoretrout · 04-09-2004, 10:49 AM

It could be a menu problem which is well known in mdk9.2. Try running this in a console:

$ update-menus -v

That was the workaround for when the menu got messed up and IIRC when the start menu got messed up the desktop icons wouldn't work properly. If you can't open a console from your desktop, hit these keys: Ctrl-Alt-F1 and you will go to a command line login. Login with your username and password and run the above command. To get back to your gui, hit Alt-F7. Hope this helps.

Tsukasa · 04-09-2004, 11:24 AM

thanks, but it didn't work.

the output [when I am regular user]

Code:

[achiad@localhost achiad]$ Update-menus[3830]: update-menus run by user -- cannot determine if dpkg is locking /var/lib/dpkg/lock: assuming there is no lock
Update-menus[3830]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
Update-menus[3830]: Reading installed packages...
Update-menus[3830]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /home/achiad/.menu/
/home/achiad/.menu/kdebase-basedir: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `kdebase'
/home/achiad/.menu/kdebase-basedir: line 1: `?package(kdebase): needs="kde" icon="go.png" section="Configuration/" title="KDE" kde_opt="X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings"'
/home/achiad/.menu/added_by_menudrake: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `menu'
/home/achiad/.menu/added_by_menudrake: line 1: `?package(menu): needs="kde" icon="applications_section.png" section="/" title=".hidden" charset="utf8"'
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
Update-menus[3830]: Running menu-methods in /home/achiad/.menu-methods/
Update-menus[3830]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//twm
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//kde3
/home/achiad/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Home.desktop: \nServiceTypes[ \t]*=[ \t]*([^\n]*)\n NOT FOUND
Wrote /home/achiad/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Home.desktop
/home/achiad/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Home.desktop: \nMimeType[ \t]*=[ \t]*([^\n]*)\n NOT FOUND
Wrote /home/achiad/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Home.desktop
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//icewm
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome
Update-menus[3830]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /home/achiad/.menu-simplified/
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/simplified/
Update-menus[3830]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/simplified/
Update-menus[3830]: Running menu-methods in /home/achiad/.menu-simplified-methods/
Update-menus[3830]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/simplified/
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods/simplified//kde3
Update-menus[3830]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods/simplified//gnome