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alacarte package

"New Separator" button throws error

Bug #910442 reported by pottersson on 2011-12-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #716324: When clicking "new separator", alacarte crashed with ValueError in __positionItem(): ('Separator',) is not in list. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alacarte (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Simply clicking the "New Separator" button produces the following message in standard error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 324, in on_new_separator_button_clicked
    self.editor.createSeparator(parent, after=after)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 237, in createSeparator
    self.__positionItem(parent, ('Separator',), before, after)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 661, in __positionItem
    current = parent.contents.index(item)
ValueError: ('Separator',) is not in list

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 31 16:18:06 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: alacarte
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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pottersson (pottersson) wrote on 2011-12-31:

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2012-01-01:

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 716324, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.