Mandrake 9.2 and LG CD Drives

[Elliott Chapin]

No luck; and I didn't make any changes that I know about. Also clicking the 
Home icon gets no action. Thanks anyway; I'll probably have time to get 9.1 
back on sometime this weekend.

At 01:41 PM 10/23/03, you wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Elliott Chapin wrote:
>
> > I didn't like the appearance of the boot screen (framed graphically like
> > lilo's). Later on the KDE menu tree (opened by the arrow/button at the
> > extreme lower left) came up extremely thin (many missing nodes), as if 
> some
> > config files had become corrupted; I don't think programs had disappeared.
> > I can't remember any more at the moment - am tired and busy
>
>That happened to my system after getting the kde patches.  Apparently (and
>I say that 'cos I have run the command but not started a window manager to
>see if it worked) this is the explanation (from mandrake club posting):
>
>   It is a known bug in the rpm package included in 9.2. What happens is
>   that when update-menus tries to run during the postinstall process, the
>   package  database is still locked by rpm, so it cannot get the package
>   list for updating the menus. The solution is to run 'update-menus -v' as
>   root and that should fix you right up. If that still doesn't work, you
>   probably have made some menu adjustments at the individual user leve. In
>   that case, run update-menus -v as your user after running as root.
>
>Mike
>
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