Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Applications menu doesn't respond

Bug #116970 reported by syllepsa on 2007-05-26

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-panel (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The problem is simillar to bug 36272 but in this case I cannot view the contents of Applications menu at all. After clicking on the menu small white box appears. I also noticed that when I click Applications Menu using right mouse button another menu appears. Then I Click on Edit Menus but nothinh happens. I can only see for several seconds Staring Main Menu in the bottom menu bar.

Regards

Mariusz

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 26 11:02:31 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux cnet-u-250-29 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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syllepsa (syllepsa) wrote on 2007-05-26:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (27.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (670 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-26:

#2

Thank you for your bug. What happens if you alacarte from a command line?

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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syllepsa (syllepsa) wrote on 2007-05-27:

#3

I am able to launch Add/Remove Software from the command line (gnome-app-install).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-28:

#4

what about "alacarte" which is the menu editor?

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syllepsa (syllepsa) wrote on 2007-05-28:

#5

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
    self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 926, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
    parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-29:

#6

Does running gnome-menu-spec-test work correctly? Could you copy the log to a bug?

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syllepsa (syllepsa) wrote on 2007-05-29:

#7

** (gnome-menu-spec-test:8165): WARNING **: Error loading menu layout from "/home/ubuntu/.config/menus/applications.menu": Error on line 1 char 1: Document was empty or contained only whitespace

** (gnome-menu-spec-test:8165): WARNING **: Menu tree is empty

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-29:

#8

Looks like a buggy /home/ubuntu/.config/menus/applications.menu user configuration. Does moving it somewhere else fix the bug? How did you edit your menu? Could you attach the file to the bug?

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syllepsa (syllepsa) wrote on 2007-05-29:

#9

First of all I would like to thank you. Moving the file fixed the problem.

The applications.menu file was empty.

At the moment I can't say what was the reason of the problem. If it happends again I will try describe it.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-05-29:

#10

closing the bug then, something wrote the broken file, if you figure what application and how to trigger the bug feel free to open a new bug against it

Changed in gnome-panel:
status:	Needs Info → Rejected

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