preprocess_layout_info: assertion failed: (!directory->preprocessed)

Please attach your broken menu file.

~/.config/menus/xfce4-applications.menu

I am unable to recreate this error. Can you try to copy the bad menu file back and see if it still fails? If yes, can you also install alacarte to see if it crashes on startup?

Thanks!

I get the same error when running Alacarte as well.

Hello!!

After reinstalling Ubuntu 14.04 Menulibre crashes, on previous installations of Ubuntu 14.04 worked perfectly. This is the output from terminal:

albert@HPG62:~$ menulibre

(menulibre:3530): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error en la línea 1, carácter 39: « » no es un carácter válido a continuación de los caracteres '</'; « » no debe iniciar un nombre de elemento

(menulibre:3530): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error en la línea 1, carácter 39: « » no es un carácter válido a continuación de los caracteres '</'; « » no debe iniciar un nombre de elemento

(menulibre:3530): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error en la línea 1, carácter 39: « » no es un carácter válido a continuación de los caracteres '</'; « » no debe iniciar un nombre de elemento

(menulibre:3530): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error en la línea 1, carácter 39: « » no es un carácter válido a continuación de los caracteres '</'; « » no debe iniciar un nombre de elemento

(menulibre:3530): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error en la línea 1, carácter 39: « » no es un carácter válido a continuación de los caracteres '</'; « » no debe iniciar un nombre de elemento
**
ERROR:/build/buildd/gnome-menus-3.10.1/./libmenu/gmenu-tree.c:4022:preprocess_layout_info: assertion failed: (!directory->preprocessed)
Abortado (`core' generado)

Best regards!!

Hi ! From a clean Ubuntu 14.04 installation, MenuLibre used to work ; I did a few things meanwhile and it began to crash, likewise. How may I help you debug the issue ? IMHO, this is an important one, especially for an LTS release :)

Thanks everyone !

@Mahendra

If you think you can recreate the steps that made the error occur, I'd be happy to work with you to test a solution.

Fix committed in trunk.

This bug was fixed in the package menulibre - 2.0.4-1

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menulibre (2.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * New upstream release
    - Fixed preprocess_layout_info segfault (LP: #1307729)
    - Fixed corruption of xfce-applications.menu (LP: #1313276)
    - Fixed menu corruption when saving after search (LP: 1306999)
    - Allow moving launchers into empty categories (LP: #1318209)
    - Install menulibre icon to pixmaps (LP: #1307469)
    - Update launcher categories on move (LP: #1313586)
    - Fixed deleted launchers being replaced by others (LP: #1315890)
    - Uninstall launchers from custom categories (LP: #1318235)
    - Escape spaces in Exec after browsing (LP: #1214815)
    - Restore previous view after search (LP: #1307000)
    - Enable X-Xfce-Toplevel category in Xfce (LP: #1309468)
    - Do not add X-Xfce-Toplevel to new directories (LP: #1315874)
    - Allow saving when entries are modified (LP: #1315878)
  * debian/control
    - Add xdg-utils to depends, hard dependency (LP: #1307481)

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Tue, 13 May 2014 22:28:42 -0400

Hello Pasi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted menulibre into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/menulibre/2.0.4-1~ubuntu14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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