Right click menu don't start (XfceDesktopMenu init failed)

[Fatih Arslan]

I've tried to compile directly from the source (4.4.2), but without
any success.
Ldd -v -r gives this output: http://rafb.net/p/wrqpK094.html


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:48:25 +0200 Fatih Arslan wrote:
>
>  > My menu do won't appear , if i opened it from the console i get the
>  > error:
>  >
>  > **************************
>  > [code]** (xfdesktop:5630): CRITICAL **: XfceDesktopMenu init failed
>  > (The XfceDesktopMenu module could not be loaded:
>  > /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so: undefined symbol:
>  > desktop_menuspec_path_free)
>  >
>  > ** (xfdesktop:5630): WARNING **: xfdesktop: Unable to initialise menu
>  > module. Right-click menu will be unavailable.[/code]
>  >
>  > **************************
>  >
>  > I can see the desktop icon's, i can change my desktop wallpaper, the
>  > middle-click with the mouse also works, except the right-click menu.
>  > The menu in the panel don't work too.   How can i fix it ?
>
>  No idea.  Have you tried compiling directly from source, without using
>  rpm?  Does that work?
>
>  Try running 'ldd -r -v' on the .so file and see if there are other
>  unresolved symbols.  If there are, it sounds like a weird linker
>  problem, possibly caused by the Makefile being generated incorrectly.
>  Not sure why that would happen though.
>
>         -brian
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