gnome main menu missing favorite applications and system options

[Ian B]

Binary package hint: gnome-main-menu

I'm running Gutsy Beta and have gnome-main-menu 0.9.8.svn.20070 installed. I currently have no choices (Lock, Log Out...) listed under "System".

Also, the Places section duplicates the directory name for most of my directories. Example: "Code Code" or "Documents Documents"

Most worrisome, I have no Favorite Applications button and no way to access any applications.

I don't have any way to replicate these bugs, this is just the way the applet was after adding it to my panel.

[Ian B (ectogon)]

Here's a screen shot

[Aldo Bassanini (abassanini)]

I have the same problem

[Allan Day (allanday)]

Same here. I'm using 0.9.8.svn.20070430-1ubuntu1.

[Rob Douglas (are-zee-dee)]

also having this problem.

[Florian Schröck (mael-reverted)]

same here on 2 different machines. on one of them the menu worked as usual with feisty before the upgrade to gutsy :(

[Ian B (ectogon)]

After looking through gconf keys, it seems that not much has been done to port default configuration settings from Suse to Ubuntu.

I found out how I lost the Applications button. I had no Applications in the "Favorite Applications" tile table when I first loaded the applet. When I pressed the Applications button, it just disappeared completely.

running "dpkg-reconfigure gnome-main-menu" reset enough of the configuration to get the button back and from that point I was able to drag application icons into the applet, which seems to solve this part of my problems.

If anyone is maintaining this package, let me know if you want a hand fixing anything. I have seen the duplicate directory names in the "Favorite Places" table on more than one machine.

[Mariano Stokle (mstokle)]

I had the same problem. The workaround I found is:

Make a complete remove in synaptic of gnome-main-menu and libslab
Make a new install

It seems to be related to config because making a plain remove does not fix it.

Regards,

[Petter (k-petter-nilsson)]

I had the same problem, no "application" menu part, i solved it by dragging a program icon from another menu into the gnome-main-menu thingie. and it worked, i got it back! hope i can help someone else with this..

[John Arthur Fensome (fensj)]

Same Problem ! Main Menu tools no longer work.

[John Arthur Fensome (fensj)]

Sorry should have mentioned using Ubuntu 7.10 and a small 2 pixel square seems to appear instead.

Trying to run the Main Menu tool(s) even after re-installing them (via synaptic) does not fix things

HELP!
URGENT!

How do we do anything if we cannot access our apps?

JAF

[Ian B (ectogon)]

@JAF

This bug is related to gnome-main-menu package which is not the default panel menu shipped in Ubuntu 7.10. If this is the problem you are experiencing then add the default menu to the panel in order to access your applications.

If you are having problems with the default panel menu, then this is the wrong bug for you.

[Michał Sznajder (michalsznajder)]

Same on me: Documents and Places not visible, System part empty. As Mariano Stokle wrote I had to

Make a complete remove in synaptic of gnome-main-menu and libslab
Make a new install

Problem appeared after upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 RC or later?

[Ian B (ectogon)]

I haven't install 8.10 yet, but I will be shortly (probably today), I'll post back after I try to replicate this bug.

[Timpotten (tim-potten)]

Missing >system >preferences

and user defined >applications >(favourites) drop-down also missing.
No possibility to edit main menu on principal (User 1000) login.

This after I accidentally deleted the main menu, and struggled to restore it.

Trying to run alacarte from Konsole as user [tim] or sudo reports:
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tim@tim-desktop:~$ alacarte
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/progress.py: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
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 56, in __loadMenus
    self.settings.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.settings.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 15, column 4
tim@tim-desktop:~$
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I can launch Synaptic using Deskbar, but have no privilege to actually do anything except look. However all is there and working on another privileged user log-in!

Using this other user, I loaded gnome-main-menu and libslab (which was missing) but no effect

I have also checked user/owner for each file I can think of - just in case whatever is missing is only occulted.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[mikeys (miketwo)]

The 'main menu" option in System Preferences Main Menu in hardy x64 does not open at all. It is listed under System Preferences, but does not open. How can this be fixed?

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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