Gnome applications menu empty

[saikatguha]

My gnome applications menu has suddenly lost all entries. I upgraded some packages last week and restarted X today to find that the applications menu (foot/redhat menu, nautilus applications: etc) are all now empty.

I checked that /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf is present and matches the one on another box with working menus. /usr/share/applications still has all the entries. The ~/gnome2 directory does not have a vfolders directory or any .vfolder-info files.

$ gnomevfs-ls applications:
does not list anything (but lists the expected folders on the machine with working menus)

Can someone help me recover the menu? Thanks.

[saikatguha]

Hmmm. so turns out that /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu had gone for a walk -- recreating it fixed the problem. There was .rpmorig which I copied over; and an .rpmsave which was pointing into a missing /etc/alternatives/applications.menu

The install of redhat-menus-1.4.1-1.1.rhfc2.ccrma.src.rpm ran into a corner case and ended up not creating the applications.menu file which it claims it includes.

[marks_linux]

Many thanks for posting the self solution, I have just suffered the same issue but hadn't worked it out, was contemplating a re-install as a last measure. I'm glad I read your post in time!!

Mark

[liannagreyson]

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