Trying to find my application menu...

[Andrej Marjan]

On 4/10/11, Thomas Milne <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Milne
> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>
> I suppose I should mention, this began on Debian Testing, and has
> persisted up to now that I am running Debian Unstable.

Not knowing anything about Gnome, it seems like a config file is corrupted.

Try moving them out of the way, one by one, starting with the one in
your home directory, and see what happens.
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