My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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The /root partition filled up totally on my Mint 13 64-bit laptop. To create some headroom I temporarily moved Python2.7 and Libreoffice aside. Whilst this gave the space I needed to sort things out after I moved then back and rebooted I had lost the Start Menu. I have tried reinstalling both Python2.7 and Libreoffice but the Start Menu has not come back. At the moment I can't think what to try next. Any ideas, or experience, on how to solve this problem.

Many thanks...
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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If the Menu is missing from the panel try:

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mate-panel --reset
You will have to add back any applets or shortcuts in the panel
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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I gave

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mate-panel --reset
a go. It came up with:- The panel encoiuntered a problem while loading "OAFIID:MATE_mintMenu". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

I said No as this seemed as if it could be the missing item. Nothing has changed - shoud I re-run with YES?
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Try

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mintmenu --reset
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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No joy I am afraid. It says it cannot find both platform independent and platform dependant libraries and that there is no module named site!
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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You can try:

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sudo apt-get update
and

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sudo apt-get install -f
If that doesn't work, try:

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sudo apt-get remove mintmenu && sudo apt-get install mintmenu
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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MichaelJohn wrote:The /root partition filled up totally on my Mint 13 64-bit laptop.
Delete all of the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Install baobab

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sudo apt-get install baobab
Baobab is a graphical display of disk usage which will help you locate the cache files and other space hogging files. After installation it will be in your Menu > Administration > Disk Usage Analyzer
Actually, the best, and most accurate, way to use baobab is to use it on the live Mint DVD or USB. You don't have to install it, it is already there.
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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Quick update... I eventually reinstalled Mint with a much larger /root partition as although I got things working of a fashion there seemed a never ending list of broken packages that had dependencies on other packages that were themselves (allegedly) broken. I will be monitoring disc space very carefully going forward...
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away

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My GOD!! I want to thank you all for helping me get my start menu back!!! I have had the hardest time with that. I have seizures & when I get sick I mess up things around me. I destroyed my laptop's OS. I locked it and changed all my passwords. Yrs ago I use to make games for the Commodore 64, & build flip phones, but couldn't fix my Start Menu. I felt so depressed & stupid. Thanks everyone.
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