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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] Re: kde menus and icons lost after power failure
From:       Jan Simonson <nytt () simonson ! se>
Date:       2004-10-06 14:33:15
Message-ID: 200410061633.15603.nytt () simonson ! se
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onsdagen den 6 oktober 2004 15.45 skrev Gavin Chester:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:31, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 04:07, magpie wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:46:37AM +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:03, Sylviane & Perry White wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not too good but since nobody else answered yet, I
> > > > > suggest it may be due to a corrupted config file in
> > > > > HOME/.kde.
>
> I did as suggested by Perry and magpie, thanks for you help people.
> However, deleting my .kde directory has worsened my problem because
> the minimal residual menus I had have now disappeared to nothing
> more than "Logout" up to "Run Command" - nothing above that at all.
>  Thanks anyway, but I guess I'll change away from KDE or fix it by
> that upgrade to FC2 that I planned.
Don't leave KDE for this... Most probably it's because of RH setting 
their own menus (or trying to do so). 
First verify that your KDEDIR is assigned:  
 [jan@oden jan]$ echo $KDEDIR
 /usr/kde  (in my case, may be different for you)

Then check the contents of $KDEDIR/share/desktop-directories:
 [jan@oden jan]$ ls KDEDIR/share/desktop-directories
 this should show a fair amount of *.directory files.

Also check the contents of $KDEDIR/share/applications/kde:
 [jan@oden jan]$ ls $KDEDIR/share/applications/kde
 this should show many  *.desktop files.

If all is well so far, check if you have the rpm redhat-menus:
 [jan@oden jan]$ rpm -qa|grep redhat-menus
 redhat-menus-1.4.1-1 (or another version)

This rpm sets the menus as RH want them and possibly to almost 
nothing, so I would suggest that you try without that rpm:
 [jan@oden jan]$ su
 Password:
 [root@oden jan]#rpm -e --nodeps redhat-menus-1.x.x-x

Now return as normal user and rebuild your menus:
 [root@oden jan]# <ctrl-d>
 [jan@oden jan]$ kbuildsycoca

If you are lucky the menus are back. If not, just reinstall 
redhat-menus if you like redhat menus...

Jan
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Jan Simonson
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