2009/5/13 mipper <evanscliff_at_gmail.com>:
> I have a very strange problem. A colleague who had quite happily been using
> 1.5.8 version of subversion updated to version 1.6.2 which appeared to go
> fine. Once this was done a right click on an existing local copy produced
> the expected context menu but selecting any of the menu items resulted in a
> big, fat nothing. No dialog of any kind could be coaxed out of the menu at
> all. Tried checking out a fresh copy but got the same behaviour.
>
> My immediate thought was to remove Tortoise and re-install which I did. No
> difference. Un-installed, removed all Tortoise related directories, and
> removed all references in the registry. Re-installed. Still nothing.
>
> Checked that the TortoiseProc process appeared when a menu item was selected
> - appeared (or at least I think it was that process, but it wasn't around
> for very long.)
>
> At this point I un-installed once more and installed 1.6.1 which I and some
> others have successfully runing on the same repository. No change at all.
>
> I'm assuming that something's got screwed up in the registry with the shell
> integration (though, as I say, the menus all appear correctlly) I've been
> hunting around for some sort of debug output I might be able to coax out of
> Tortoise but the only thing I can come up with is the debug setting in the
> registry which isn't helping as it displays its output on the dialogs which
> I can't get to.
>
> Has anyone come across this behaviour before? How do I track down what's
> happening?
>
> Any help greatfully appreciated.
Did you reboot between uninstall and re-install?
To clean up the registry try this tool:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/files/documents/406/27146/ClearInstall.exe
Simon
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Received on 2009-05-14 00:35:58 CEST