Comment 7 for bug 492958

darco,

ok. My suspicion is the gnome menus on your system are in a funky state do to the partial upgrade and cairo-menu will probably start working again once you get that sorted out.

I've added an additional check into the code that might keep the crash from happening... but it's just an educated guess. It will be in the next ppa update.

Meanwhile, it might be worthwhile trying one of the other menu applets and see if they act up also.