Libremenu refuses to launch.

[mikewhatever]

When launched from a terminal window, the following appears:

~$ menulibre

** (menulibre:10314): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-TqDavb3kAP: Connection refused
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py:28: PyGIWarning: GMenu was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('GMenu', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf, Gio, GLib, GMenu, Gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/menulibre", line 40, in <module>
    import menulibre
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from menulibre import MenulibreApplication
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 26, in <module>
    from . import MenulibreTreeview, MenulibreHistory, Dialogs
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreTreeview.py", line 23, in <module>
    from . import MenuEditor, MenulibreXdg, XmlMenuElementTree, util
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreXdg.py", line 31, in <module>
    default_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 562, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 490, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: en_IL

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: menulibre 2.1.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Dec 5 20:22:47 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-29 (66 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: menulibre
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[mikewhatever (mikewhatever)]

Apparently, it didn't like my locate parameters, which were auto-generated at the time of OS installation. It looked like this:

~$ locale
LANG=en_IL
LANGUAGE=en_IL:en
LC_CTYPE="en_IL"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_IL"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_IL"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

After some fighting, I've changed it to mostly en_US.UTF8 as follows:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_IL:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

...and now the menu editor opens. This is similar to the problem with the previous menu editor in 17.04, mozo, which was never resolved.

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