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Alacarte doesn't take anything into account or crash

Bug #66705 reported by sdrapeau
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (german language):

Even if I start alacarte as administrator:

- it is not possible to to check boxes to show or hide menu entry
- It is not possible to drag an drop any menu.
- It is not possible to delede menu.

I' have tried to create a new entry for gvim (I can not check the symbole to have him shown) and as I wanted to fill the commando field alacarte crashes.

I have the bug file of the crash.

If you want it I can mail it.

grüße - Samuel

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sdrapeau (samuel-drapeau) wrote :

Here is the file concerning the crash described above ;-)

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Alan Jackson (ajackson-bcs) wrote :

I can confirm that I can not add new entries (it goes through the process, ie lets you fill in all the details but doesn't add the entry) and disable or delete existing entries

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Alan Jackson (ajackson-bcs) wrote :

I've found out why changes aren't being made when you add/edit/delete entries. The .local directory and it's sub directory are all owned by root with a mask or rwx------ so the user can not make amendments. I changed ownership to my username and I can make changes now.

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sdrapeau (samuel-drapeau) wrote :

Perfect! There is no problem anymore.

I'had the same kind of problem with a KDE program (kile) because of the .DCOPserver.

Now it's ok
Thanks

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug. Marking this as confirmed. Were the owner settings made by default when you installed it? If this is the default settings after install than i think it needs to be fixed, That is why im not closing this yet.

Changed in alacarte:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Alacarte does not create .local as root, you need to find out what did it.

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sdrapeau (samuel-drapeau) wrote :

I have made a fresh instalation of Ubuntu last week with two ext3 partition one for / and one for /home (both formated). I've made nothing special. I think this problem of the owner settings are inherent to the installation of Ubuntu. If not, I can not explain why. sorry

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frans (fransre) wrote :

I had the same problem on Feisty (upgraded from Edgy), but for me the solution wasn't in the .local directory, but in the .config directory.

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/frans/.config/menus/applications.menu'

so after

sudo chown -R <user>:<user> .config

Alacarte worked as advertised.

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