lost menu items after dist upgrade to beta

[Jane Silber]

Binary package hint: gnome-menus

After an upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) to 7.04 Beta, several key menu items were lost. Specifically

- add/remove programs
- menu editor

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

Sorry, just found the menu editor (under System->Pref->Main Menu). FWIW, I think that is an odd place and and odd name for it. Was it an upstream change to move it there? Made more sense to me in previous location (Accessories->Menu Editor).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That's an upstream change, not sure what location is better, it depends if you consider the menu editor as an application or the menu as something to configure

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Menu Editor is now System->Preferences->Main Menu (sorry!), dunno about the other one. Either way, I'm pretty sure this is a gnome-menus bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Jane, is the gnome-app-install package installed on your box? Could you attach /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to the bug?

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

gnome-app-install is installed, and I've attached applications.menu

Have also discovered that Synaptic no longer appears in my menus after upgrade. And a bunch of other things that should be in that submenu (I only have 6 items in System->Admin, while a default installation seem to be about 15 items). Can't add them back because of bug 96706.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is your user member of the admin group?

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

Ah - may be getting close. Am not part of "admin" but I am part of "adm" (which I understand is old version of admin?)

The groups command gives me:

jane adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, the code looks for "admin" membership, what is weird is that we use it since dapper so the bug should not be new. Did you do any changes to the groups list?

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

Nope, have never touched the groups list and had this capability (and menu items) prior to upgrading to Feisty. I was running a fully up-to-date Edgy system prior to the upgrade. The upgrade didn't go completely smoothly, but it eventually did install everything. Don't know how something could have reverted to Dapper though.

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

A little more info: mdz thinks this is related to the fact that I installed 4.10 (Warty) originally on this machine, and have only upgraded at every release since then. Since Warty is the only fresh install I've ever done, I have always been in the adm group and never in the admin group. For some reason this didn't cause issues in previous releases, but maybe there is something about Feisty that now is more reliant on the admin group than previously? And, presumably, it isn't a good idea to automatically move everyone that had been in adm to admin automatically.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

well, as written before the code is there since dapper, I don't get why it's changed for you only now. The only change I did is to make it display admin menu items when uid=0 or when setting USER_IS_ADMIN

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Ok, that was due to restricted-manager adding an admin group, that has been workaround with update-manager after beta, marking fixed then

[Kim Tucker (ktucker)]

FYI, I had a similar problem after an upgrade in feisty. I could not get menus back. At some point I tried installing xfce4 - which givers all the menus I expect. Gnome and KDE still don't.

[Kim Tucker (ktucker)]

The suggestion above seems to have solved the problem:

sudo usermod -G admin myusername

I get all my menus back (apart from some additional I expected after installing edubuntu-desktop).

Thanks :-)