[apport] alacarte crashed with ExpatError in parseFile()

[MiGu^]

Binary package hint: alacarte

when right clickin in Applications and clicking edit menus whole menu crashes and system settings main menu editor crashes when entering

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 28 17:14:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: alacarte 0.11.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
ProcCwd: /home/mikko
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
SourcePackage: alacarte
Uname: Linux tuxtop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report.

[Tina Russell (tinarussell)]

I have the same problem, but also, Alacarte took the whole menu with it! I now have no applications menu. (I use the "main menu" button, rather than a full "menu bar" app, but the menu only contains "places" and "system," no more application menus of any kind...)

Does anyone know what I can do?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I'm pretty sure this is because you ran out of disk space. To get your menu back run 'rm ~/.config/menus/*'. However, you should delete some unneeded files to make some free space as you'll likely have other problems.

[Dmitriy Geels (dmig)]

I got this problem with menu loosing too. Is 13.9Gb of free space not enough for alacarte?
File .config/menus/applications.menu became empty.

[Francois Huaulme (francois-huaulme)]

I also got the same problem. But removing the content of ~/.config/menus/ solved the problem.

[Андрей Калинин (prize2step)]

I confirm this problem on my Hardy.

[kalvinarts (kalvinarts)]

Problem solved too removing the content of "/home/[user]/.config/menus/". Thanks Travis!

[Dilomo (ankere)]

I have the same problem and rm ../menus fixes the error.

[Juan Villarejo (juaniv-a)]

Yes it's solved, my problem was that my hard disk was full and I didn't noticed hehe. Then I did that rm ../menus and it worked again.

Thank you

[Ansus (neptunia)]

I have the same problem. I have 69 Gb free space, but all Applications menu diappear when editing.

rm -f ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

restores the menu, but still cannot edit it (attempt to edit leads to the same menu disappearance).

Menues disappear not only in alacarte, but also when editing with gmenu-simple-editor.

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

Had same problem. Ran out of HD space, but rm ../menus fixed it.

[Max (yumaxim)]

The problem appears while removing wine applications, specifically old versions of Need for Speed.

[Nuty (mynuty)]

When I try remove wine entry into the main menu - the main menu is gone =)

[Oleg Yermakov (epushiron)]

Okay, I have a lot of free space and the same problem: my «Applications» menu is empty after I tried to hide a wine menu item.

There's no need to delete your customized menu!

1) Go to «~/.config/menus» with file manager.
2) Check that file «applications.menu» is empty. Delete this file.
3) You can open your menu now — it works, but it's reset to default.
4) Find non-empty file «applications.menu.undo-XX», where XX is the biggest number you can find in folder.
5) Copy it as «applications.menu». Now everything is fine.
6) Don't delete your wine menu items until this problem is solved.

[Oleg Yermakov (epushiron)]

Further observations:
(there's a lot of Russian names here, hope this doesn't make any problems to your reading)

I deleted the item called «Русская справка» from the wine program «Solo on keyboard 9», when everything crashed.

So I run
 LANG=EN alacarte &>alacarte-error.log

The log looks very useful, look at attachment.

it says about encodings. So I look for menu item called «Русская справка» (attached too):
<Include> <Filename>wine-Программы-Соло на Клавиатуре 9 Три в одном-Русская справка.desktop</Filename> </Include>

I look at ~/.local/share/applications/ and find the file name with some incorrect characters in its name (characters are escaped by «less» command):
 wine-Программы-Соло на Клавиатуре 9 Три в одном-Ру<D1><D1>кая <D1>правка.desktop

So, for some reason wine (imho, wine) created .desktop files with «с» (U+0441 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES) replaced by 0xD1 character. I can run items, I can edit them, but alacarte kills my menu when I try to hide them.

I have another menu item with «с» in its name, and it makes the same problems.

[Oleg Yermakov (epushiron)]

Btw, maybe this bug affects wine too

[JazzplayerL9 (jazzplayerl9)]

I didn't run out of disk space...33% used atm, but when I tried to uncheck an application to hide it with alacarte, it blanked my menu. Removing ~/.config/menus/* restored my menu again.

[dmn86 (dmn86)]

havent met this problem on 9.04., but after upgrade to 9.10 it showed

[Yoques (yoques)]

He solucionado el problema abriendo una carpeta y colocando /home/[mi_usuario]/.config/menus/ y borrando TODO lo que había ahí adentro.

Gracias por la ayuda.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 97449 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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