Missing Menu Entries - Lucid Beta 1

I am affected as well.

Excerpt from /var/log/apt/term.log is attached.

in Virtualbox beta1 test install menus was gone but on real notebook live mode everything was fine, very strange bug or something.

duplicate bug #542343?

This issue has nothing to do with the gnome-panel not appearing last night. This is different. The menu entries in system > preferences > main menu >system tools is still empty. menu > system tools is still empty. Control Center is still not present in the menus and nVidia settings is still not present.

OK. The last updates seem to have corrected the nVidia setting and Control center issue. However, the menu entries in system > preferences > main menu >system tools is still empty. menu > system tools is still empty.

@seb128: likely.

I'm guessing the menu entries are being left out because of the X-Ubuntu-* line being added to the beginning of desktop entries (the same reason gnome-panel wouldn't start). Just have to wait for a rebuild on those, I assume.

How is this a duplicate of bug 542343, which had to do with corrupt .desktop entries?

What are you expecting to have under System Tools? The only things I have under there are non-core, e.g., VMware and Device Manager. nvidia settings, for example, is under System->Administration. I don't see the Control Center anywhere in the menus, and I've checked the menu editor on 3 separate Lucid installs.

I am also affected - no control center below below Preferences and Administration.
menu > system tools is not there at all
system > preferences > main menu >system tools has several listings

I had the Nautilus/ Gnome panel crash mess last night so had to reinstall this morning - most things working fine but some oddities.
I use ATI Radeon HD4670 and have not been prompted about drivers when selecting visual effects extra. Not sure if i have a driver installed or not - nothing in any of the menus.
Compiz config will not allow me to add more than 2 desktops so cant get a cube. If you type 4 it reverts to 2 after a few seconds.
It allows you to rotate the 2 desktops tho (rotate desktop plane lol)
From the release notes I understand Drivers from the AMD site have not been relesed yet for Lucid but can't find out if I need to install the ATI open source driver?

@ Noel J. Bergman

You asked "What are you expecting to have under System Tools?" Well, in Karmic (and previous versions) as well as Lucid up through Alpha 3, System Tools included the entries "Configuration Editor", "File Browser", "GDebi", "Report A Problem" and "Root Terminal". All are now not present. This was viewable in system > preferences > main menu >system tools. The menu editor had these entries up until Beta 1.

My scan last night showed that none of those were hit by the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain bug, except for File Browser. This is not a duplicate.

@9:

Exactly the same for me, too. There are a lot of useful (in default not showed) Menuentrys that simply could be enabled with Alacarte. They are gone completly. Also, evince and Eog have been removed from the Graphics-Menu.

I think here is a big misunderstanding. What other Users above mean are the "hidden" Entrys that where activatable via "Alacarte". Maybe the Bug should be filed against it?

@ Thorsten Reinbold

Perhaps you're right. in any event, this bug dies not seem to be a dupe of any other bug. I left a comment on the supposed dupe here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/542343/comments/29

ust had a big update, 104 of them. was hoping this issue/bug would get fixed. Not yet, it appears. "Control center", along with "Configuration Editor", "File Browser", "GDebi", "Report A Problem" and "Root Terminal" are still missing in system > preferences > main menu > system tools.

Why has this bug been karked a dupe of bug #522969. That bug is about nVidia Settings missing. My bug is "Control center", along with "Configuration Editor", "File Browser", "GDebi", "Report A Problem" and "Root Terminal" are still missing in system > preferences > main menu > system tools. nVidia settings, by the way, has been fine for some time now. At least for me.

Unduped, sorry

> "Configuration Editor", "File Browser", "GDebi", "Report A Problem" and "Root Terminal"

None of those are *supposed* to be displayed, by the way.

Yes, they are.

If you go to system > preferences > main menu > system tools - The option to have them show was ALWAYS there...By the way. It was like that in Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic and Lucid through alpha 3.

Thanks for "unduping" :-)

144 updates this morning. Still, this bug has yet to be addressed.

This bug is a superset of 551727 which specifically addressed the missing Control Center menu item on the gnome-panel System menu. It would obviously be best for this item to both exist and to be enabled by default, but at least it should be an option.

Too bad the brainstorm idea about consolidating configuration items was ignored.
See: Clean up Preferences and Administration

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-menus - 2.30.0-0ubuntu2

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gnome-menus (2.30.0-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/update-gnome-menus-cache:
    - don't do cache filtering based on the display informations, the cache
      should list the installed entries and let the display logic to be in the
      libgnome-menus code so the behaviour doesn't change, that fixes non
      displayed entries not being listed in editors (lp: #542300)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:52:00 +0200

Should I see sometihng new when I go into the menu editor? I still don't see the missing entries.

Nevermind. I thought I had seen it update, but I only have gnome-menus 2.30.0-0ubuntu1, not -ubuntu2.

FINALLY! Thanks for the work on this devs! Though I still cannot locate 'Control Center'. I'm assuming this will be fixed.

This issue is fixed for me.
Right click gnome-panel "System" menu; left click "Edit Menus"; left click "System" on the menus list. "Control Center" now appears as an unchecked menu option. Check this item and uncheck the "Preferences" and "Administration" menus since they are redundant with "Control Center". It's too bad that this isn't the default behavior as with Suse Linux, but some people didn't like losing the menus they were used to.

I'm running Lucid and face a problem with missing menu entries every time. I don't think this bug is fixed...I've updated to the latest gnome-menus package and still no luck.