E17genmenu is deprecated and will be removed from Ebuntu. Actually, E17 uses .desktop and is compliant with the default .desktop files (so can use the Gnome , KDe ... .desktop)
Maybe you should edit the bug description and mark it as affecting upstream: ubuntu edgy as it's pointless to keep an open bug that we can't fix and is actually caused by ubuntu itself
so, the bugs seems to be due to bad work with initramfs .
I've remade it for the beta release, and it seems to works.
I'll close this bug after beta will be released.
Please the next time, split bug report and applications :)