Comment 4 for bug 104521

Man, after Xserver crashed, "Applications" from Start Menu no longer works. "Main menu" from "System" also does not work.
Does not work as in: I click on them and nothing shows up.
When I try to launch "Main menu" also known as Alacarte from Terminal, I receive the error messages as listed below.

Shortly before the Xserver crashed, I was working within Terminal and trying to compile and install the latest version of Gimp. However, I simply ignored it and restarted X, then carried on installing Gimp. Sudo make install, etc., etc. The only packages I'd installed within the last 12 hours were: gimp-print, gimp 2.2.14.

Since then I've also tried reinstalling python2.5 and python-xml and python-lxml

Nothing happened.

Below are the error messages for Alacarte in Terminal:

lucifiel@lucifiel:~$ 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/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 926, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
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