xfce upgrade kills xfce menus

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just upgraded xfce to the version posted in the last few days and
>>> now I get 'File "menus/applications.menu" not found' when I try to
>>> open the apps menu
>>
>> The current solution is force reinstall garcon. Because the function
>> related to menus has been migrate from libxfce4menu to garcon, and
>> during the update, the menus installed by garcon are removed by
>> libxfce4menu.
>
> Unfortunately, neither 'portmaster garcon' nor 'portmaster -r garcon' made
> any difference here.
>

I don't use portmaster, so I don't know whether these command can
*force* update a package. However, for portupgrade, a --force option
is enough to do so. I met the same problem, and I have fixed it with
an *force* update.

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Zhihao Yuan
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