Bug 6923

Summary:	No menu in lxde after clean network install using nonfree-boot.iso
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dave Hodgins <davidwhodgins>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lxde-common-0.5.5-9.1.mga2	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	List of packages installed report.bug.gz from new install duplicating the problem.

Description Dave Hodgins 2012-07-31 23:44:39 CEST

After logging in to lxde, there is just a screen with the desktop
background.  No panel, or menu.  Alt+f2 does work, so I can run
things.

In ~/.xsession-errors the only line that looks relevant is
Openbox-Message: Unable to find a valid menu file "/usr/share/lxde/openbox/menu.xml"

The file does exist, and looks valid, as far as I can see.

I've switched from lxdm to gdm, to see if that was the problem, but
no difference.

This is a clean install done using the nonfree-boot.iso under VirtualBox.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-01 00:19:01 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => oliver.bgr

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2012-08-01 00:51:21 CEST

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644756 has a patch
for a similar problem.

I tried creating the symlink, but that doesn't fix the problem, so
it may not be the same.

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2012-08-01 05:33:17 CEST

Created attachment 2600 [details]
List of packages installed

Something I've installed since reporting this has fixed the problem, but I'm
not sure which one fixed it.

I first noticed the panel and menu were there, after rebooting to select
the server kernel.

The attached list shows everything that's been installed since I reported it.

Comment 3 Oliver Burger 2012-08-01 10:47:14 CEST

I can't reproduce.
I just did a network installation with boot-nonfree.iso and everything was as it should be.
I did an absoultely minimal installation in a qemu-kvm virtual machine without suggests and with only task-lxde and lxdm chosen as packages (including their dependancies).

Can you reproduce on a fresh installation? If yes, please give me exact details about your installation.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2012-08-05 02:12:36 CEST

Created attachment 2606 [details]
report.bug.gz from new install duplicating the problem.

Recreated the problem.  During the install, I did a
custom install of Mageia 2 i586.  I unselected all
package groups, except Console tools, Configuration,
and LXDE desktop.

During user management I unselected the xguest user
in the advanced settings.

In the summary, I went through all options except users,
services, and proxies.

In the bootloader config, I selected grub with text menu.

Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2012-08-07 21:37:28 CEST

I've now realized the menu is there, but for some reason the
virtualbox screen and window size don't match, so it's not
visible unless the screen is resized, and then scrolled
down.  Strange, as I've selected the same size in all of
the vb installations I've done, and only encountered the
problem with Mageia 2 i586.  So it looks like it's a VirtualBox
problem, which may have been fixed in newer releases.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 6 Oliver Burger 2012-08-08 08:38:51 CEST

Yep VBox tends to do such things....