gnome-shell crashes when clicking in Activities -> Applications

Bug #799449 reported by Marco Biscaro
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GNOME Shell
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-shell

Running oneiric fully updated.

HOW TO REPRODUCE:

Click in Activities -> Applications and gnome-shell crashes.

DETAILS:

I've tried to debug gnome-shell and got no conclusive results. But when looking for the output, I've noticed the following line: "Aviso do gerenciador de janelas: Log level 6: applications.menu not found."

When looking for "applications.menu" in packages.ubuntu.com, the package 'gnome-menus' was listed. Anyway, when looking for contents of that package, the file /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu was not there.

WORKARROUND:

As suspected, the file applications.menu was renamed (or something like this) to gnome-applications.menu. I've executed the following commands and the problem is gone:

cd /etc/xdg/menus/
sudo ln -s gnome-applications.menu applications.menu
gnome-shell --replace

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.0.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 19 12:38:56 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110610)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

I'm confirming this report due to duplicate.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
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Eric Appleman (erappleman) wrote :

Confirming on fresh 7/17 iso with gnome-shell

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Iain Buclaw (iainb) wrote :

Made patch for the renamed menu file here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/798135/comments/12

I could rebuild the package and submit the diff.gz for uploading into Ubuntu.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Fixed in gnome-menus package.

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