Comment 11 for bug 1218687

It appears to be a permissions issue preventing these menus from displaying.

Here's a work around. If you launch dbeaver from the command line using sudo, the menus do work:

sudo /usr/share/dbeaver/dbeaver

Apparently, something changed in Ubuntu 13.10 to where now this exact same dbeaver deb installer installs in a manner in which dbeaver cannot access all of its prerequisites when launched as a regular non-sudo user.

Unfortunately, this work-around isn't perfect; any previous dbeaver settings, that were saved in your user account's home folder won't be accessed when launching dbeaver this way. You'll have to set all settings from scratch or some how copy your local user settings to the correct root location that gets queried during this sudo-launch of the application.