menulibre crashes on start on ubuntu 14.04

[Matthias Hillebrand]

First I tried alacarte (which was offered by the repository, but apparently does not work). After the first start and trying to change some things it crashed and does not start any more. Maybe it broke something also for menulibre?

alacarte gives me following error:

(alacarte:14957): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed

(alacarte:14957): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 26, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 471, in main
    app.setMenuBasename(basename)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 66, in setMenuBasename
    self.editor = MenuEditor(menu_basename)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 49, in load
    if not self.tree.load_sync():
gi._glib.GError: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 1: Dokument ist leer oder enthält nur Leerraum

I gave menulibre a go. Unfortunately it never came up and keeps crashing with this report:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 2509, in do_activate
    self.win = MenulibreWindow(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 339, in __init__
    self.configure_application_treeview(builder)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 562, in configure_application_treeview
    treestore = MenuEditor.get_treestore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 120, in get_treestore
    menu = get_menus()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 182, in get_menus
    menu = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 234, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 252, in load
    if not self.tree.load_sync():
gi._glib.GError: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 1: Dokument ist leer oder enthält nur Leerraum

Anything I could do or maybe even a glitch in menulibre?

thx in advance, Matthias

[Georg Lipps (georg-lipps)]

Same problem here (alacarte, ubuntu 14.04)
I guess the root of the problem is a file describing the structure of the startmenu. This file appears to be corrupt. I have not found a way to figure out which file this is and how to reset it.

Georg

[Georg Lipps (georg-lipps)]

Delete ~/.config/gnome-applications.menu and you may restart alacarte with default settings.

Georg