kubuntu menus scrambled

[darkonc]

I have installed kubuntu fresh on a system with the filesystem split up as:

/ , /var , /tmp , /home .

once the system is installed, the KDE menus are mangled as shown in the attached screenshot.

as an example, the menu for kcron reads:

[IMG] _: Entries in K-menu: KCron app name, Task Scheduler desc...

Some menus end up OK (mostly menus added after the initial install -- but not all such applications).

This error seems to have existed since at least Tribes 5 (the first version I installed), but I thought that somebody had obviously noticed it.

About the only things that I can think that I have done differently than most testers is:
1: virgin install (not an upgrade), and
2: splitting the filesystem ( / , /var, /tmp , /home ) [intent is to separate fast-changing folders from /root ]

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Do you still have this problem w/ the final release?

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

Yes. Final install is still broken.

I did both a split partition install and a single partition install.. both resulted in mangled menus.

Other settings:
 Language: English
TZ: Canada/Vancouver
kbd: US English

partitioning: Manual. -- either / /var /tmp /home or single slice for entire system.

Once again: both systems were clean installs -- not upgrades.
I can do an upgrade install (starting from ubuntu, though, not kubuntu). I'll see what it does.

(hmm... I MAY have a kubuntu 7.04 system to upgrade....)
In either case, I probably won't be able to do the upgrade installs until the weekend.

One thing to note is that many (but not all) of the packages that I installed after the initial install seem to have 'normal' menus. (and a few of the initially installed packages also had normal menus after the initial install.)

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

What do you mean by splitting the filesystem? Are you making separate partitions for the ones you listed above?

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

Yes. My standard method of partitioning is to create separate partitions for
/
/var
/tmp
/home

The intent is to minimize writes to the root partition. (not such a necessity, now that we have logging filesystems, but the paranoid in me likes the extra security)
If I was being seriously paranoid I'd also turn on noatime for /.

However, I tested it both ways. I did one install with the partitions as above, and a second install with a single partition for everything. Both of them had the same problem, so I'd say that the only obvious variables I can see are the locale info and the fact that I'm doing a clean install as opposed to an update.
.

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

The CD I installed was (MD5sum)
ae9b209fe4b9caf545fa2011631de797 kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso

When I installed it, however, it claimed to be the development version.
do some sites still have an outdated image?

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

Possibly related:
I just added an item for Firefox with Profile-manager. I did it by using KDE Menu Editor and copying and pasting the regular firefox menu item (which is one of the ones NOT scrambed).
WHen I was done, the new item was scrambled.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

Changing this to KDEBASE package. Are you able to test this in intrepid to see if this is still a problem?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

I'll try and get around to downloading and testing it by the weekend.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Jesse <email address hidden> wrote:

> Changing this to KDEBASE package. Are you able to test this in intrepid
> to see if this is still a problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => kdebase
>
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[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Is this valid with 3.5.10 or 4.1?

What languages are you using?

[darkonc (samuel-bcgreen)]

It <b>seems</b> to be fixed, but I ran into a host of other problems. (mostly usability issues), but they included adept_installer. breaking itself. I'll attach the file this-sucks.txt Please file appropriate bugs in the appropriate places.

BTW: the way that I did this test was to buy an 8GB flash drive and do the install on there. (split partitions on the flash drive)

The work is all done in US English.