[desktop-discuss] Missing applications from menu on nv_41

[Dave Miner]

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:06 -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
>> I have an installation[1] of nv_41 which, when logged in as root, 
>> contains no applications on the main launch menu; by this I mean that 
>> the "All Applications" sub-menu is empty, and the top-level entries for 
>> web browser et al are missing.  Any suggestions on where to start in 
>> figuring out why this is the case?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [1] This isn't a standard installation, it's a prototype for the Live 
>> Media project, thus I'm assuming the problem is in the construction 
>> process I'm using since my standard installs of nv_41 do not exhibit 
>> this behavior.
> 
> I suspect this is because some postinstall stuff that normally gets
> executed at first reboot never gets executed.  In build 41, these
> commands are:
>   /usr/bin/update-desktop-database
>   /usr/bin/update-mime-database
>   ls -d /usr/share/icons/* | xargs -l1 /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
> 
> How exactly do you install the pkgs?
> 

They're pkgadd'ed into an area just as they would be for a normal 
installation, but there is a great deal of post-processing to turn that 
into a bootable DVD, so anything that's done by a normal pkgadd is there 
to start with.  What executes the above commands on the first reboot?

Dave


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