[Tfug] An easy (I hope!) Gnome question...

[Jim March]

"Command not found" - even went all the way out to the terminal with
gnome closed completely.

I'm thinking there's a menu config file somewhere...nuke it and it'll
rebuild itself?

Jim

On Nov 3, 2007 10:13 AM, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> did you try "sudo update-menus"?
>
> Earl
> "God made man, Sam Colt made men equal."
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>
> -- "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Got a weird one here.  I had a friend's machine running Ubuntu Feisty
> (Gnome), did an upgrade to Gutsy.  Did some other additions and tweaks
> and uh oh, that LAST small upgrade to stuff like Acrobat Reader caused
> an out-of-disk-space problem.  Damnthing only has a 30gig total, all
> one big partition (Ext3) 'cept for 1.5gig swap.
>
> It started running "funny" - fonts went wonky, some things wouldn't
> run, ghaaa.  So I cleared some space post-haste.  Got the fonts/video
> drivers back under control, all seems fine, except one of the main
> Gnome drop-down menus...won't drop down no more.  "Applications".  Not
> actually a disaster because I do desktop icons for this guy for his
> major apps - TBird, FireFox, etc.  The thing runs OK otherwise, but
> naturally the menu manager app won't start.
>
> I figure it's gotta be a borked menu manager file somewhere.  I tried
> going to home and deleting the gnome-related hidden dirs, basically
> reset the gnome user settings.  It reset lots of things (wallpaper,
> panel applets, etc) but not the damn menus.
>
> Anybody recall which file I need to nuke for that?  Or put another
> way, am I right that that's what's up here?
>
> Any help appreciated.  I *could* leave it like this until Monday if I had to...
>
> Jim
>
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