this happened farily recently, suddenly a lot of my Gnome menu items disappeared. after playing around a bit, I found out all those that disappeared had a "TryExec" field in their .desktop files (regardless whether it's empty or not), after removing TryExec from all those .desktop files, things went back to normal. However, since TryExec is automatically inserted whenever I edit a menu item or add a new menu item on Gnome menu, doing this every time is quite tedious. I suspect this is due to one of the updates I did recently (I'm not sure which, since I update quite frequently, and I stay on one session of Gnome for weeks). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.add "TryExec=" field in one of the Gnome menu item's .desktop file, or simply add a new menu item, or edit an existing one("TryExec" is automatically inserted). Actual Results: the menu item will not appear(or disappear). Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 1 2004, 21:57:14)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse,387 -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -fforce-addr" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse,387 -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-s" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit X aac aalib acpi alsa arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cdrom cjk clamav codecs crypt css cups dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr encode esd evo f77 fam fbcon flac font-server fortran freetype ftp gatos gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg junit latex ldap libclamav libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng monkey mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer msn mysql ncurses net nls no_wxgtk1 nobsh oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png posix python quicktime readline real rtc samba sdk sdl slang spamassassin spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-with-x xchatdccserver xinetd xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib zvbi video_cards_radeon linguas_en linguas_ja linguas_zh_TW.Big5 linguas_zh_CN.GBK" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET
should be fixed in gnome-panel-2.8.3 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165799
*** Bug 85154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 87997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
