Comment 1 for bug 54835

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-229370.html

Author: Amaranth
August 4th, 2006, 08:40 PM
... the solution for your menus is to either install the 'menus' package and run 'update-menus' (which will give you a debian menu) or remove the /etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu file.