Menu editor alacarte crashes on startup

[bsh]

Binary package hint: alacarte

bsh@bsh-vbox:~$ alacarte
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/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 48, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 44, in __loadMenus
    self.applications.path = os.path.join(util.getUserMenuPath(), self.applications.tree.get_menu_file())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 65, in join
    if b.startswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
bsh@bsh-vbox:~$

lucid linx RC, x86, up to date

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

It looks like bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592718 ; linking the report, thanks for reporting.

[bsh (bsh)]

solution: copy the menu files from /etc/xdg/menus to the user folder ~/.config/menus (which is empty by default)

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

I see this problem if I using Oneiric latest daily live CD with fallback gnome session.
I want prewious launch alacarte because I would like verify wwhy empty the applications menu if I using GNOME3 with fallback mode.
I only installed with gnome-session-fallback package and required dependencies.
The places menu is OK, only the applications menu is empty.

Attila

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

It doesn't launch in 3d, 2d, or Gnome 3.