[oclug] silly MDK issue fix.

[Jean-Pierre Denis]

Hi,

Rod Giffin wrote:
> Sorry for the distribution specific issue, but this can pop up really
> suddenly and bite you if you're using Mandrake 9.2.
>
> If you're doing an update to KDE or GNOME, and you loose your KDE or
> GNOME menus - and the ability to do anything about it - there is a
> potentially really easy fix.
>
> The fix is, simply boot from the install CD, and run through an update
> rather than an install.  The process took about a minute for me, and it
> restored the default menus.

There is an easier way to fix this.

run Mandrake Control Center (MCC).  Select System and then MenuDrake.
Once in menudrake select "system menu" by clicking configure.
You will see all the menu items in MenuDrake as they should be.

Now all you do is click Save and your menu items are back.


Thanks,
Jean-Pierre Denis
jp at msfree dot ca

Public Key: http://www.msfree.ca/jp.asc