On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:35:39PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> System is testing, hppa. I've just committed the glibc update in the
> past few days.
>
> After installing acct, postinst failed on update-menus.
>
> Running update-menus manually returns:
>
> # update-menus
> Aborted
m
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> > Nothing went wrong actually. I just had to remove
> > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, then the menus generated by
> > update-menus appeared but this has the downside that now I
> > can'
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Nothing went wrong actually. I just had to remove
> ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, then the menus generated by
> update-menus appeared but this has the downside that now I
> can't add my own customizations with hotkeys etc. throu
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:46:50PM +0100, Siert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> > What will I have to do to make them available to the normal user?
>
> Did you tried `update-menus -v` to see where it goes wrong? I think the
> normal user is NOT allowe
Siert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>
>
> > What will I have to do to make them available to the normal user?
>
> Did you tried `update-menus -v` to see where it goes wrong? I think the
> normal user is NOT allowed to read the f
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:40:43PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> What will I have to do to make them available to the normal user?
Did you tried `update-menus -v` to see where it goes wrong? I think the
normal user is NOT allowed to read the files needed to generate the menu
(/usr/lib/menu,
#include
Rich wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 um 12:02:16PM:
> rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian': Permission denied
> ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian/Sound' to
> `/home/rich/.kde/share/applnk/Debian/Sound': Permission denied
Known bug, should be
--- joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2001/02/10(6)/10:02, Xucaen wrote:
>
> > > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \
> > > > section="Apps/Editors" \
> > > > title="jed" \
> > > > command="/usr/bin/jed"
> [ ... and `dpkg -l jed' shows it's
At 2001/02/10(6)/10:02, Xucaen wrote:
> > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \
> > > section="Apps/Editors" \
> > > title="jed" \
> > > command="/usr/bin/jed"
[ ... and `dpkg -l jed' shows it's installed OK, still updates-menu ignores jed]
A strange story
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> Hi all..
>
> I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but
> update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to
> work with one menu file I added, but I've added
> three more since and they don't show up.
> here's one that I am trying to get to wor
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> is /etc/menu/jed:
>
> ?package(jed):needs="text" \
> section="Apps/Editors" \
> title="jed" \
> command="/usr/bin/jed"
Looks fine to me. Do you hava a `jed' package installed
(does `dpkg -l j
Yeah, the problem is vtwm doesn't have a "#include" directive for
reading multiple files on startup. Shouldn't be too hard to hack the
source to do this. Though I'm wary of doing stuff like this because it's
not very portable, in the sense that I would have to compile my own
custom vtwm
On 19-Nov-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote:
> How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom wm config files? For
> example, I rolled my own ~/.vtwmrc. Now, I apt-get install xinvaders. I
> would like a menu entry for xinvaders to appear automagically in my
> window manager, without losing my othe
* Sean Johnson said:
> wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks.
Anytime :)))
marek
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wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks.
Sean
Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> * Sean Johnson said:
> > A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
> > ... as its format is evidently fscked.
> Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every
> 'hints="somethi
* Sean Johnson said:
> A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
> ... as its format is evidently fscked.
Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every
'hints="something"' line.
marek
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A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file
... as its format is evidently fscked.
Sean
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
>
> i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as
> potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that
> update-menus doesn't
>
> * "shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> shaul> Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic
> shaul> entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where
> shaul> should I look ?
>
> a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed?
> b) run update-menus wi
* "shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
shaul> Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic
shaul> entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where
shaul> should I look ?
a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed?
b) run update-menus with verbose and deb
Joost,
After receiving your request to run your test program to try to catch
the update-menu's bug, and having the symptom happen again to me here
this evening, here's some more information about the update-menu's bug
for your reference.
Summary:
- Had the symptom happen again.
- Was
Laurent Martelli wrote:
> I saw something about this in debian-devel, and I think there's a bug
> report now.
Yes, I've been in contact with the package maintainer and here was his
response to me.
Since I had the problem last night, it has not happened again, which I
don't really understand, but
> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nate> Anyone have any other ideas on how to catch what's happening
Nate> to it, or is this a known issue being discussed elsewhere, and
Nate> I don't see it because I only am subscribed to Debian-User?
I saw something about this in debi
I've been noticing the very same thing. I tried deleting a few files, and
forcing
them to be recreated, and that only partially worked. It seems to be completely
ignoring what entries are located in any and all of the locations it searches
...
/etc/menu, /usr/lib/menu, ~/.menu, and so on.
Sean
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>
=> You may need to restart windomaker to get it to notice the changes.
=>
Thanks, but that doesn't work either.
--
Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux (Potato)
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:30:15AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> Basically my Window Maker menu is not updating as it should, even when I
> install a new Debian package. If I run update-menus as a user I get a
> segmentaion fault, and as root it does nothing. Manual changes to
> /etc/menu have n
>> "F" == Fabien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> ps : it's a shame that there is not enough explanations in the man
F> pages.
You are always free to submit patches trough the bug system. You will
also find all this information in /usr/doc/menu/html/*
Ciao,
Martin
Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: update-menus
> Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 06:00:34PM +0200
>
> In reply to:Fabien
>
> Quoting Fabien([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have tried to use update-menus for local applications (not from debian
> > package).
> >
> > In man menufil
Subject: update-menus
Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 06:00:34PM +0200
In reply to:Fabien
Quoting Fabien([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello.
>
> I have tried to use update-menus for local applications (not from debian
> package).
>
> In man menufile, they say :
> << Each menuentry specifi
On Friday, May 14, 1999 at 15:53:16 -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this.
This may be because root account is intended only for certain
administrative tasks. For everything else, one should (create and)
use a normal user account. I don't believe
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2
Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:53:16PM -0800
In reply to:Adam Shand
Quoting Adam Shand([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is
> > > either
> &
> > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either
> > ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the
> > menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps.
>
> Right!! I found this out at 2 AM this morning!
>
> Two kudos tho, it works her
>> "m" == mguenthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
m> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
m> update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
m> I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
m> "local." For exa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2
Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:02:25PM -0400
In reply to:Andrew Chung
Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > I don't know if this will help, but I
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
> > update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages.
> > However
> > I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
> > "local."
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE
Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 05:50:07PM -0700
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
> update-menus, being un
I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
"local." For example:
?package(local.Eterm):\
needs=X11\
section=Personal\
ti
Subject: Re: update-menus
Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:22:20PM -0400
In reply to:Andrew Chung
Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Looks like I have opened a can of worms here. Looks like I will
> > change WM to fvwm and start this all over again.
> >
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work?
Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 12:33:31PM -0400
In reply to:Wayne Topa
Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work?
> Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:32:22PM -0400
>
I have run t
> Looks like I have opened a can of worms here. Looks like I will
> change WM to fvwm and start this all over again.
>
> Andrew, what WM are you running and do you see any of the above
> happening?
Here's what I added to get the menu entries:
In ~/.menu/tcd:
?package(tcd):needs="text" title=tcd
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work?
Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:32:22PM -0400
In reply to:Andrew Chung
Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > ?package(gtcd):needs="x11" icon="none" section="Apps/Sound" \
> > title="Gtcd
> ?package(gtcd):needs="x11" icon="none" section="Apps/Sound" \
> title="Gtcd" command="/usr/X11R6/bin/gtcd"
>
> but it still doesn't show up in the menu of any user after I run update-menus.
> Yet 2 removed apps are still showing up in the Users menu.
Did you run update-menu as yourself or as ro
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> update-menus is giving me segmentation faults (core dumped) ... I recently
> upgraded several programs (dselect wanted to/hamm distribution) and now it
> doesn't work. Anyone have an idea on what could be wrong?
Yes, u
On Aug 29, 1997, at 16:18, joost witteveen wrote:
> > shell-init: could not get current
> > directory: get\cwd: cannot access parent directories
>
> This I don't understand. I wrote update-menus, and I've
> seen quite a few error messages from update-menus. But
> I've never seen this one (n
> I installed the netscape package, with the netscape binary file in
> /tmp, just as the instructions said. The thing installed OK, and was
> configured OK, but at the end of the process I got the following
> message:
>
> ..
> - Netscape will not be able to read user mail spool files unless you se
> I have been upgrading my debian 1.3 distribution - to some of the files in
> unstable.
>
> After I did this I get errors everytime update-menus runs.
>
> It just core dumps.
>
> Any ideas on why/how to fix it.
What version of menu are you using? 1.4-1 uses libc6, and so everybody
who has men
> > > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> > > things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> > > root could run pdmenu and easily get to a submenu of con
> Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > > > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > > > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time
>
> >
> > That's a good idea (nice to see you're using my pdmenu program, btw :-)
> >
> > I'm cc'ing this to Joost, since
> On Apr 12, Paul Wade wrote
>
> > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> > things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> > root could run pdmenu and easily
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time
>
> That's a good idea (nice to see you're using my pdmenu program, btw :-)
>
> I'm cc'ing this to Joost, since he handles the men
On Apr 12, Paul Wade wrote
> I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> root could run pdmenu and easily get to a sub
I haven't had time to play with menus and pdmenus. I installed them and
began using them "as is". That's a compliment. Now, whenever I install
a few packages, I run update-menus as root just in case. Then I run
pdmenu and restart fvwm2 to see if anything got added. It's always a
joy to see new ent
joost witteveen:
> >
> > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> > things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> > root could run pdmenu and easily get to a s
> > I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> > program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> > things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> > root could run pdmenu and easily get to a submenu of config tools
> I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> root could run pdmenu and easily get to a submenu of config tools. Wher
>
> I notice that many of the packages tell you that you can run a config
> program (gpmconfig, apacheconfig, smailconfig) at a later time to change
> things. Shouldn't these be added to menus as part of the install? That way
> root could run pdmenu and easily get to a submenu of config tools. Whe
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