[Techtalk] mandrake 9.2 boot and GNOME

[Phil Savoie]

Hello,

I wonder if you call on menudrake to rebuild the menus would help?  I have 
installed afresh and then installed the almost 200MB patches.  I found out 
that the upgraded hosed the start menu in kde.  A run of menudrake solved 
that. 

HTH

Phil

On Friday 21 November 2003 13:07, iriXx wrote:
> hi all
>
> just wondering if anyone's tried mandrake 9.2 yet.....
> i upgraded from 8.2, yeah, pretty old and tired, and all seem fine
> except there are some odd glitches.
> the boot script spits out some strange errors, like help messages when
> you've passed the wrong option...
> and then i logged in and chose GNOME and there are no
> words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only icons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> no words on any of the menus on any programs. so its unusable.
> enlightenment works, fortunatley.
> havent tried kde yet.
>
> a friend of mine suggested that it could be the upgrade process, or a
> faulty disc.
> i know discs tend to barf completely though if they're faulty, with
> mandrake....
>
> maybe i should wipe and reinstall, using a seperate partition for
> /home.... he also suggested that, so i dont have to wipe my own
> documents each time i reinstall... could be cleaner....
>
> any thoughts?
>
> thanxx
>
> m~