Date: 13 Jul 2002 19:26:11 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> Cc: sobomax@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnomecore/panel problem (earlier - "desktop totally screwed up") Message-ID: <1026602775.911.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713230325.84BDA13110@netcom1.netcom.com> References: <20020713230325.84BDA13110@netcom1.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 19:03, Mike Harding wrote:
>
> I backed my gnome up to Jul 7, and rebuilt, and everything works fine
> in gnome. I then cvsup'd to this morning, and did the following:
>
> - pkg_remove all 'old' ports
> - rebuilt /usr/ports/x11/gnome
> - tried to start gnome
>
> and got the same .xsession errors:
>
> ** WARNING **: No system menus found!
>
> ** WARNING **: menu /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnome/apps does not exist (arguments are .)
>
> I TRACKED THIS DOWN to /usr/ports/gnomecore/work/gnome-core01.4.1/panel/menu.c
>
> note the following lines:
>
> (line 162)
> menu = gnome_datadir_file ("gnome/apps");
> ...
> (line 166)
> menu = gnome_datadir_file ("applets");
>
> now as far as I gnow (sorry) 'apps' and 'applets' are in the same area
> of the hierarchy:
>
> /usr/X11R6/share/gnome
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jul 13 08:26 applets
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 13 09:35 application-registry
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 13 08:26 applications
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Jul 13 10:37 apps
> ...
> (no gnome directory)
>
> so it can't find the apps.
>
> These lines are also elsewhere in menu.c, but clearly something ain't
> right...
>
> It looks like the 'gnomeng' change boogered something up, hope this
> info is useful...
I think I found the problem. Can you change the USE_GNOME line in
libpanel's Makefile to read:
USE_GNOME= gnomeprefix gnomelibs
Then rebuild and reinstall libpanel. See if that fixes things.
Joe
>
> - Mike H.
>
>
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