menulibre and alacarte crashes after menu edit

[Rob Ward]

After using alacarte to add a new menu entry, both menulibre and alacarte do not run. menulibre draws a window outline and disappears. alacarte simply thrashes the hard drive and nothing appears. Removing /home/.config/menus/ allows them to work again.

I was not sure whether to attach the alacarte or menulibre system information, sorry if I have got the wrong one, I can forward the alacarte if requested. I have saved a copy of the menus folder which I can forward as well.
During all this time the Applications Menu and Whiskers menu worked fine in the Panel and retained their menu entries and structure.

I maybe at fault in how I used the Menu editing programs (my stats will show I have only had the system up and running for 4 weeks, status==newbie) or it maybe a bug. Since the first time the menu editing crashed, and I recovered it, I have successfully added extra items to the menu, but I have also had it crash twice since then as well. Each time deleting that .config/menus/ folder got it working again and stable as long as I was modest in what I attempted.

The last time it crashed I was trying to add an Icon to a menu entry that did not get an Icon when it was installed.

/home/rob/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu is quite short about 400+bytes and when it crashes there is a file about 16kbytes long (this file contains a whole list what looks like every possible menu item, visible and invisible, in the machine, the short file version only contains information relevant to the last icon created).

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ apt-cache policy menulibre
menulibre:
  Installed: 2.0.3-1
  Candidate: 2.0.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.3-1 0
        500 http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ubuntu-archive/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ apt-cache policy alacarte
alacarte:
  Installed: 3.10.0-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.10.0-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.10.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ubuntu-archive/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: menulibre 2.0.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue May 13 11:06:37 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: menulibre
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (24 days ago)

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Hi,

Please run alacarte or menulibre from the terminal to see if there is any crash output.

[Rob Ward (rl-ward)]

Hi Sean,

Here is the terminal interaction on my machine at the moment.

rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ alacarte

(alacarte:5724): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure:
assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL'
failed

(alacarte:5724): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure:
assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL'
failed
rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$
rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$
rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ menulibre

(menulibre:5733): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_model_get_iter: assertion
'path->depth > 0' failed

(menulibre:5733): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_model_get_iter: assertion
'path->depth > 0' failed
rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$

However both Main Menu and Menu Editor are running and allowing edits,
so this does not reflect the situation where they "don't cooperate".

Would you like me to try to replicate the error and repeat the above
(assuming I can of course)?

I have attached the current /home/.config/menus/ as an archive file
"menus0" (which I think is an empty folder), plus the older one that I
had to delete (ie cut and paste elsewhere) menus1. It has preserved a
file called "xfce-applications.menu" which was present when it was
crashing, and a sub folder "gnome-applications-merged" and
"applications-merged" that contain the same named file
"xfce-applications.menu" that previously allowed the programs to work.
I may be jumping the gun here, but I am hoping these extra observations
may help.

*Rob Ward*
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On 13/05/14 20:22, Sean Davis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please run alacarte or menulibre from the terminal to see if there is
> any crash output.
>