alacarte crashed with AttributeError in split(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'

[dino99]

Oneiric a3 i386 & logged as gnome-classic

how it have happened:
- right click on Applications to tweak the menu
- select Applications from the dialog box
- wanted to erase an entry: vmware ace folder, but does not be removed

on other cases some deprecated entries cant be removed but dont get crash each time.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic-pae 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 13 11:22:25 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
SourcePackage: alacarte
Title: alacarte crashed with AttributeError in split(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin audio avahi avahi-autoipd boinc cdrom couchdb crontab daemon debian-tor dialout disk fuse haldaemon klog kmem libuuid lpadmin mail messagebus mlocate mysql mythtv netdev ntp operator plugdev polkituser pulse root sambashare saned shadow ssh ssl-cert sudo syslog tty users utmp video voice www-data

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 187919, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.