0.13.2-2ubuntu4 : alacarte crashed with IOError in on_edit_properties_activate(): [Errno 2] No such file or dir: 'alacarte-made-1.directory'

[dino99]

Precise i386 logged as gnome-classic

was cleaning some deprecated entries into alacarte menu, but some entries refused to be wiped and got a crash instead.
this bug have already been reported a long time ago but never got attention: bug #355829 , hopes it will get fixed for this LTS.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28pre201203030400-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 7 08:44:22 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
ExecutableTimestamp: 1328522175
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
ProcCwd: /home/oem
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
SourcePackage: alacarte
Title: alacarte crashed with IOError in on_edit_properties_activate(): [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'alacarte-made-1.directory'
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 powerdev pulse root sambashare saned scanner shadow ssh ssl-cert sudo syslog tty users utmp vboxusers video voice whoopsie www-data

[dino99 (9d9)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 634, in on_properties_button_clicked
    self.on_edit_properties_activate(None)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 375, in on_edit_properties_activate
    parser.write(open(file_path))
IOError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'alacarte-made-1.directory'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 95, in loadUpdates
    item_id = os.path.split(items[iter][3].get_desktop_file_path())[1]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 83, in split
    i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 636, in on_delete_button_clicked
    self.on_edit_delete_activate(None)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 341, in on_edit_delete_activate
    self.editor.deleteMenu(item)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 343, in deleteMenu
    menu_xml = self.__getXmlMenu(self.__getPath(menu), dom, dom)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 447, in __getPath
    path = menu.tree.root.get_menu_id()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'root'

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