[Freewx-maint] Bug#648968: boinc-manager's menu not shown

[Steffen Möller]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:13:42 +0800
> Von: Guo Yixuan <culu.gyx at gmail.com>
> An: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
> CC: 648968 at bugs.debian.org, wxWidgets Maintainers <freewx-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>
> Betreff: Re: Bug#648968: boinc-manager\'s menu not shown

> On 04/26/2012 04:56 PM, Olly Betts wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:43:35PM +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, these 2 patches were applied by upstream, but the bug still
> exists.
> >> The Ubuntu bug[1] (from mail #19 on) was actually reopened after
> >> 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 that should have fixed it.
> >
> > Sorry, I was mislead by the suggestions that we need to apply those
> > patches from Ubuntu.
> >
> > I suspect Scott Kitterman is right, and this is a actually a different
> > bug (but with similar symptoms):
> >
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxwidgets2.8/+bug/662077/comments/24
> >
> > Do you know if this has been reported to wxwidgets upstream?
> >
> 
> After some search: there is one [1], originated in gentoo [2]. However 
> [1] is closed as invalid. (Maybe it's really a boinc-specific bug that 
> didn't show up before wx2.8.12?) The comment [3] notes that recompiling 
> against 2.8.11.0 solves the bug.
> 
> [1] http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14032
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379979
> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379979#c5

My hunch is that it is at least partly with BOINC. The menus initially are shown just fine. And it is only when a connection is established that the menu line is crippled down to the file menu.  Try stopping the boinc-client and then start the boincmgr. The menu line should then be fine.

Best,

Steffen