[desktop-discuss] Missing applications from menu on nv_41

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

Hi Dave,

> Thanks for your help to this point, Laca.  Unfortunately, I'm still not 
> quite there.  The chroot'ed run of postrun-runq seems to generate a 
> correct /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (as I can copy it to an 
> installed system and get a launch menu populated with all the 
> applications just like I normally would), but when I run the Live DVD I 
> still get nothing in the Applications, Preferences, or Administration 
> sub-menus, as well as none of the Firefox/Staroffice/Thunderbird entries 
> on the top level.  So I'm guessing there's some piece of Gnome 
> infrastructure that's not being started that needs to be.  I'll probably 
> resort to looking at process lists and stuff, but any clues that can be 
> dispensed would be helpful.

It sounds as if SUNWgnome-panel-root wasn't installed.
These menus are populated using the .menu files in /etc/xdg/menus.
You can try truss'ing /usr/bin/gnome-menu-spec-test and compare the
result with a system that works.

Laca