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[walrus]

I've just installed aMule on Mandriva 2006 using rpm -i on this file :
http://www.oldfrog.info/Linux/RPMsaMule/wxGTKu%202.6.3/aMule-2.1.1-wxGtk2.6.3_mdv.i586.rpm
On the next reboot, all my "start" menù was gone, and it included only the entries made by aMule. The strange thing is that in menudrake all my menu is present,
but i cant make go it back to my desktop. Someone knows how i can take my menu back without reinstalling Linux ?

[OldFrog]

Very weird thing, you are he first one who got such a bug, as far as I know.

Give a try to this :
in command line, run the following : /usr/bin/update-menus

[walrus]

i tried update-menus but it did nothing...
btw my menus are present in menudrake but miss in kmenuedit...

[wardevil]

Thats a KDE known bug...Try this:
1- Logout kde
2- press Crtl-Alt-F1
3- login as normal user
4- in the console type: kbuildsyscoca and enter type root password and hit enter
5- run update-menus
6- login as root: su and enter
7- run kbuildsyscoca
8- run update-menus
9- press Ctrl+Alt+F8
10- Login to kde again

Thats should be enough...

Cheers....

[walrus]

thanx for the help
running kbuildsyscoca i get a lot of "specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype" error both as user and as root
but before doing that i have to close only kde or also the x server ?

[wardevil]

The best way is to telinit 3 and then run those commands both as root and as user but closing kde session only will do the trick.....X server could be up with kdm login screen...
Try it and tells us how it went....

Cheers....

[walrus]

thanx for the help but i decided to reinstall
even with initlevel 3 kbuildsyscoca doesn't run.
Btw do you know where i can find more info about this bug, if it happens again ?

[wardevil]

You dont need to reinstall linux....You can try another thing:
1 - Logout kde
2 - in the command line as normal user type:mv ~/.kde ~/.kde_bak && rm -rf ~/.kde
3 - Kde settings will be lost but in a few minutes you put it like it was before
Things like the desktop and other file you have in desktop will not be harmed...only the settings of application will be lost....

Hope it helps....You can find bugs related to kde here

Cheers.....

[walrus]

in the end i had my menu back by removing and reinstalling kde
But :"mv ~/.kde ~/.kde_bak && rm -rf ~/.kde" makes a back-up of my menus ?
if not there's a way to do it ?

[OldFrog]

More simple, then you just remove ~/.kde/share/applnk it will reinit your own menus, but not delete other customizations (wallpaper, screensaver, mail if you use kmail, etc).

For any reason, it seems the gliotch was in your own user settings, not in Linux installation