My Start Menu Has Gone Away
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My Start Menu Has Gone Away
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...
Many thanks...
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away
If the Menu is missing from the panel try:
You will have to add back any applets or shortcuts in the panel
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mate-panel --reset
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away
I gave
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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mate-panel --reset
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
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
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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
You can try:
and
If that doesn't work, try:
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install -f
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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
Delete all of the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives.MichaelJohn wrote:The /root partition filled up totally on my Mint 13 64-bit laptop.
Install baobab
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sudo apt-get install baobab
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.
Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, Quad core AMD A8-3870 with Radeon HD Graphics 6550D, 8GB DDR3, Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
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Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away
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...
Re: My Start Menu Has Gone Away
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.