Menulibre does not start

[Ciro Mazzardo]

1) ~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 19.04
Release: 19.04

2) ~$ apt-cache policy menulibre
menulibre:
  Installato: 2.2.0-2
  Candidato: 2.2.0-2
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.2.0-2 500
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) I expected the program to start.

4) The program does not start.

When I boot it from the terminal:
~$ menulibre

(menulibre:20957): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:45:54.319: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu already attached to GtkMenuButton

(menulibre:20957): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:45:54.366: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu already attached to GtkMenuButton
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 2217, in do_activate
    self.win = MenulibreWindow(self, headerbar)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 250, in __init__
    self.configure_application_treeview(builder)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreApplication.py", line 589, in configure_application_treeview
    self.treeview = MenulibreTreeview.Treeview(self, builder)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreTreeview.py", line 48, in __init__
    self._configure_treeview(builder)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenulibreTreeview.py", line 59, in _configure_treeview
    treestore = MenuEditor.get_treestore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 123, in get_treestore
    return menu_to_treestore(treestore, None, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 111, in menu_to_treestore
    treestore = menu_to_treestore(treestore, treeiter, item[3])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/MenuEditor.py", line 100, in menu_to_treestore
    tooltip = escapeText(item[2]['comment'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/util.py", line 99, in escapeText
    return GLib.markup_escape_text(text, len(text))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 415, in markup_escape_text
    return GLib.markup_escape_text(text, length)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 39: unexpected end of data

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: menulibre 2.2.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 19 13:41:49 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: menulibre
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rafael Costa (rcostarega)]

Searching, I found the following solution:

Edit the file menulibre util.py:

sudo nano /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/menulibre/util.py

Search for:

return GLib.markup_escape_text(text, len(text))

Replace with:

return GLib.markup_escape_text(text)

This has worked for me.

[Ciro Mazzardo (fenekkugitsune)]

This solution works for me too.
Grazie mille man.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

The fix works for me too

[Claudio Fior (caiofior)]

Thanks for the solution: it worked

[ugonegnome (ugonegnome)]

This solution works for me too.
Thanks