kde menu gone after upgrade - mdk 8.0

[Roy Smith]

I decided to "upgrade" my mdk 8.0 installation last night by booting from the cd-rom and choosing upgrade rather than install - basically, I wanted to add everything that I didn't add the first go-round. No obvious problems until I started x, with kde as the gui. Most of the icons in the panel were nothing more than "gears", and clicking on any of them invariably caused an error message pop-up saying "can't access /usr/share/applnk-mdk/whatever" and sure enough, no such link could be found in that directory. Clicking the "K" button (which is still a "K") gives an abbreviated list of applications, but _only_ those that I added during the upgrade.
I thought I'd found a possible solution at MUO: updatedb; rpm --rebuilddb; update-menus: but that was no obvious help.
If I invoke the menu editor, I get MenuDrake which does seem to have everything listed ok, but I haven't yet determined how to apply this - if possible!? - to my kde panel.
Any suggestions?


PS and BTW and FWIW - yes, I tried search but doesn't seem to be working as it gives me no response. The NHFs don't appear to have anything about this. While I may or may not be able to fix things manually, I think it'd actually be a lot quicker to just do a total re-install. BTW, has anybody ever tried to do a RE-install _without_ formatting the partitions; i.e., is it possible that existing files would simply be over-written rather than separately written?

[ 31 July 2001: Message edited by: Roy Smith ]

[j.harrison]

Reinstalling shouldn't be a problem for Drake 8. I've done it on a dual boot, and DrakX saw my Linux partition, asked me if that was the one I wanted to use, and off it went! It overwrote everything, and the reinstall went like a charm. That's certainly easier than fixing what you've got broke (though not nearly as educational).

[Roy Smith]

not nearly as educational is exactly right, and that's really the main reason i'd like to fix the problem. that, and the fact that i will lose the "work" that i've done with the system so far, mostly just a lot of configuration and some software installations (mostly games) and upgrades via modem. i haven't been able to spend much time on the problem as yet, though.
thanx for the input! :)

[Roy Smith]

minor update for those who've been waiting with bated breath :)
un-installed a few items - kdeadmin, kdeutils, kdebase - just because they sounded like they _might_ be related, then re-installed them, logged out and back in and things are at least partly working now.
won't be able to do anything else for nearly two weeks - gonna hit the beach.

[posidamuS]

I had similiar problems with my upgrade from MANDRAKE 7.0 to 8.0. I tried to update my current configuration but my bootloader didnt register my origional; LILO! Try updating again, but in expert mode. YOu get more options and it might work! I dont understand why 8.0 is so picky! Otherwise so a clean install and start over! It's sucks but you hjave to sometimes!