[Comm-en] Help!!! Menudrake killed my KDE menu!

[Mark Donahue]

Hello all,

Big problem today.  I figured I would finally tackle reorganising the menu structure in KDE to something that makes a bit more sense to me.  I ran Menudrake from the KDE menu, saved the new settings... and nothing happened.

Next I entered the menu configuration (still Menudrake, of course) via the Alt Linux Control Center.  This time, when I saved, all my KDE menus disappeared! Is there a way to fix the situation without reinstalling KDE (I've put quite a bit of work into getting everything to work the way I want)?

Here is the error output when I tried running update-menus from the console (as root).  I found the same error text in the Russian mailing list- but I don't read any Russian, sorry.

Thanks for any help,

Mark

[root at mark-s /]# update-menus -n -v
Update-menus[4276]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
Update-menus[4276]: Reading installed packages...
Update-menus[4276]: Reading translate info in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
Update-menus[4276]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
Update-menus[4276]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//kde
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//kde: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//kde returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//menu: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//menu returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//icewm
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//icewm: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//icewm returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//WindowMaker returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-keys returned error status 1.
Update-menus[4276]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications
In file "/etc/menu/menudrakeentry", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 3:
[...]needs="kde" package="menu" section="././" title=""
[...]                                                 ^
Missing (or empty) tag: title
This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
isn't literal
/etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications: Aborting
Update-menus[4276]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gnome-mime-data-applications returned error status 1.