The applications menu has gone

[Miguel Angel Ramirez]

Binary package hint: alacarte

Just unselected some applications with alacarte and when I closed it I tried to see the menu and I only can access the "Places" and "System" menus, but not the "Applications" menu.

I tried to see if there's a configuration file for that but had no luck.

In addition I can't access to the items in the edit menu in alacarte.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? What exactly did you do? Can you run alacarte from a terminal and look if there's any output?

[Miguel Angel Ramirez (mramirezramirez78)]

I use Ubuntu 6.06, I just installed it.

I installed gnome-pim and more programs using synaptic, when I tried to unselect some applications from the menu using alacarte I unselected the Applications Submenu that gnome-pim used to put their two programs, I unselect more programs, I created a new account to try to reproduce the bug, and saw that unselecting only the Applications Submenu the Application menu had gone.

If I run again alacarte using ALT+F2 I can select again the Applications Submenu and the Application menu came back, but if I unselect the Applications Submenu and close alacarte, when I run again alacarte and the only thing I do, nothing else, is to push the Revert Button then I lose the menu and can't make it to come back.

By the way I don't really need gnome-pim, I just installed it to try. I uninstalled it but the menu didn't come back.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Open a terminal and run this:

rm ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/Applications.directory

[Miguel Angel Ramirez (mramirezramirez78)]

I did that and my menu is back after logout gnome and login again.

Thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Travis, is that an alacarte bug? Users should not have to remove files from the command line

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I would think this is an alacarte bug but I can't get it to make a file called 'Applications.menu' since that one already exists for the root menu (which is why hiding it makes your menu go away). I have seen a couple of other people say trying to hide the gnome-pim menu entries makes their menu disappear and it was the same problem.

[Greeneemer (perstolpe)]

Something similar has happened to me too.

Unknowingly, I filled up my Ubuntu partition with a simple cp command on a big file.
While my hard disc was full, I right clicked on the Application menu and selected to edit my Applications menu. I got a message that Alacarte was starting up, but that message disappeared and nothing more happened. I didn't know then that my hard disc was full, I only thought that it was slow because of the file operation under way.

Since nothing happened after I got the message that Alacarte was starting up, I decided to let the copy operation do its things undisturbed so I waited. Some seconds later, I got a message from Gnome that my hard disc was full and the cp operation halted. I then removed some files to make space again.

After that I had made some space I clicked the Applications menu, but by then it was empty...

I don't know if this is the same issue as the original post, but the outcome is the same.

I'm using Ubuntu Edgy Eft (upgraded from Dapper) with all packages up to date as of a week ago. (dual boot with Windows XP Pro)
I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8600c.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Going to mark this bug as 'fixed' because I cannot reproduce it but I think the cause of it is gone.