Alacarte crashes on open

Bug #146528 reported by kopision
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alacarte (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

After I upgraded my ubuntu to 7.10 beta, I found that the "Wine" folder disappeared and the shortcuts inside were found in the "Others" folder. Because the programs were already removed, I opened menu editor to clean the disabled shortcuts. Then the menu editor crashed, without any error message. I thought maybe I need to restart my computer first, but after I restarted, the main menu crashed again! I noticed that gimmie crashed as well, so I removed gimmie and restarted again, but it's useless. I hopelessly opened menu editor again, and it showed me the bug report window.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 29 07:21:29 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alacarte 0.11.3-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
ProcCwd: /home/kopision
ProcEnviron:
 <email address hidden>
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
SourcePackage: alacarte
Title: alacarte crashed with ExpatError in parseFile()
Uname: Linux PC4Cat 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-crash
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kopision (kopision) wrote :
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kopision (kopision) wrote :

It's been resolved... Not Alacarte's fault... Just simply remove the files in ~/.config/menus and everything will be all right.

Changed in alacarte:
status: New → Invalid
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akulog.com (webmaster-akulog) wrote :

Thanks to kopision.
Worked perfectly for me too.

kopision (kopision)
description: updated
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Peter Flynn (frisket) wrote :

No need to remove them. It appears to be just one file, xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu
which is pwned by root for some stupid reason. Just sudo chown -R <username> .config
and it will work.

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Antono Vasiljev (antono) wrote :

Same crash on Hardy when trying to disable some wine stuff from menus.
rm -rf ~/.config/menus fixed the problem.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) wrote :

Used #4 with modification:

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config

can be run from anywhere and will be given access to the user who runs it.

Works a treat.

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