Trying to find my application menu...

[Thomas Milne]

Actually I'm trying to figure out if maybe this is a bug. I have lost
all entries in my Gnome menu except for system settings and Gnome
preferences and so on. If I click on 'more applications' in the Gnome
menu, however, I get 'Failure loading - applications.menu'. When I try
a locate on that, I get:

/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/kde4-applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-10
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-11
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-12
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-13
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-14
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-15
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-16
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-17
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-18
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-19
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-20
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-21
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-22
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-23
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-24
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-25
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-26
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-27
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-28
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-29
/home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-30
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/applications.menu

I found some tips that the menu should be
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, so I copied over the file from
/usr/share, but that did not help at all.

I also tried ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to no avail.

Before I submit a bug report, I just want to see if this is something
I might have inadvertantly borked myself. Anyone else seen this or
have any tips to illuminate?

Thanks!

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