Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 15:13 +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:42:40PM +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote: > > Package: menu-xdg > > Version: 0.2.3 > > Followup-For: Bug #439427 > > > > > > A previous run created incorrect files in /var/lib/menu-xdg instead of the > > directory > > (see attached archive). This leads to this error while running > > dpkg-reconfigure menu or menu-xdg. > > > > Execution of /usr/share/menu/cdd-menu generated no output or returned an > > error. > > Unknown error, message=Could not create directory(menu-xdg): File exists > > install-menu: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-dirs: aborting > > update-menus[7314]: Script /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-dirs > > returned error status 1. > > Unknown error, message=Could not create directory(menu-xdg): File exists > > install-menu: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps: aborting > > update-menus[7314]: Script /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps > > returned error status 1. > > Unknown error, message=Could not create directory(xsessions/): File exists > > install-menu: /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-sessions: aborting > > update-menus[7314]: Script > > /etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-sessions returned error status 1. > > > > > > This produces unusable debian menus . > > It looks like > > http://www.yepthatsme.com/2005/10/12/if-your-debian-menu-in-gnome-ever-disappears/ > > . > > I fixed it via rm -Rf /var/lib/menu-xdg/* plus dpkg-reconfigure menu-xdg. > > > > I wonder if it is a problem that can be fixed in the package or menu-method > > (by checking if those > > are files instead of directories and deleting them if so). > > This is possible to do, but I would be very much interested to know > how /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions ended being a file instead of a > directory. I checked carefully and update-menus cannot do that. > Especially the content of /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions is strange. > What filesystem are you using ? > > Cheers,
THe filesystem is ext3. I don't think we ought to manage this error case. It is only I think I found out what caused the debian menu to dissappear (though I cannot explain it). I hope this could help resolve the bug that s all. Best regards, Alban
