On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:37:13PM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote:
> Perhaps there is something wrong with the packages on my Cheapbytes CD or
> something about my new system (different hardware than my previous
> successful installation) that Debain doesn't like. I can't figure it out
> and I've been working on it for a month now.
[as root]
$ chmod +x /etc/menu/wm*
$ update-menus
[as user]
$ echo \"menu.hook\" > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
$ rm ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook
That should do it. If it doesn't, look in /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook, it
should be populated with several menu entries. If it's not, there's
something really wrong, and I don't have enough information to make an
educated guess.
> I've done a complete reinstall several times now and am having several
> oddities that I did not experience when I simply downloaded the packages
> (which I have since erased to free up hard drive space). My parallel zip
> drive is suddenly sda1 instead of sda4. I also get a "bread" error when
> mounting a logical drive (hda6) in my extended partition. If I can get X
> working
Did you change the kernel? Sounds like it. Also, I still don't understand
what's the problem with X. If you are able to check that the menu is not
correctly generated, then X is fine (because wmaker is working, if X were
not ok, you wouldn't even see wmaker). Take a look in ~/.xsession-errors,
some sort of clue should be hiding in there.
Marcelo
