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Menu Items Gone Missing

PostPosted: Oct 24th, '19, 23:06
by hduff
I added a new user, logged out as me and logged in as the new user to set up a few things.

When I logged back in as myself, all my menu entries are nowhere to be seen.

All my file in my home directory are still owned by me, so I'm at a loss to understand what happened.

Re: Menu Items Gone Missing

PostPosted: Oct 25th, '19, 00:39
by doktor5000
What desktop environment do you use? And are all menu items (supposedly you mean the start / application menu?) gone or only some? Could you maybe attach a screenshot?

Re: Menu Items Gone Missing

PostPosted: Oct 25th, '19, 08:11
by hduff
I'm using LXDE.
Yes, the Start/Application menu. It was extensive before, and now only contains Run and Logout.

Re: Menu Items Gone Missing

PostPosted: Oct 25th, '19, 10:47
by ns80
Hi,

I have several questions:
1) Did you install some new software before logging back in as yourself?
2) In the directory "$HOME/.cache/menus", do you have at least a file that is as recent as the directory itself?
3) Does the command "ps -ef" list a process like "/usr/libexec/menu-cache/menu-cached /run/user/<uid>/menu-cached-:0"?
4) Does the file "$HOME/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log" contain some information about a crash of "menu-cached"?

Best regards,

Re: Menu Items Gone Missing

PostPosted: Oct 25th, '19, 18:40
by hduff
ns80 wrote:Hi,

I have several questions:
1) Did you install some new software before logging back in as yourself?
2) In the directory "$HOME/.cache/menus", do you have at least a file that is as recent as the directory itself?
3) Does the command "ps -ef" list a process like "/usr/libexec/menu-cache/menu-cached /run/user/<uid>/menu-cached-:0"?
4) Does the file "$HOME/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log" contain some information about a crash of "menu-cached"?

Best regards,


Thank you for your help.
1) No.

2)
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$ ls -al ~/.cache/menus
total 612
drwx------  2 hoyt hoyt   4096 Oct 12 15:54 ./
drwxr-x--- 51 hoyt hoyt   4096 Oct 23 17:27 ../
-rw-------  1 hoyt hoyt 154609 Aug  9  2018 31847fecd5ba1a937749a6d8b94d90cf
-rw-------  1 hoyt hoyt 130499 Oct 12 15:54 3e6d1f9e7d1e439018372a22c79dff3b
-rw-------  1 hoyt hoyt  88645 Aug 10  2018 528c0d3f075ff39824ebf744a4d91973
-rw-------  1 hoyt hoyt 130986 Jul 13  2018 717925c292659fe2f09bfb793bb7ef4f
-rw-------  1 hoyt hoyt 108064 Oct  5 12:43 80c2dea5456d02acc46fdacbd693abb5


3)
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$ ps -ef | grep menu
hoyt      3330     1  0 Oct23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/menu-cache/menu-cached /run/user/1000/menu-cached-:0
hoyt     14140 13976  0 12:37 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color menu


4) No.