Bug#407033: gnome-menus: After upgrade to Etch: Applications menu is empty and never gets populated

[Armando Romero]

Package: gnome-menus
Version: 2.16.1-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I am on Etch. Since one week I upgraded from Sarge. My system was
working well and Gnome was working well. 

Now I cannot use Gnome session from GDM login, because there are no
menus in the gnome panel. If I use Gnome section from the IceWm start
panel, there are also no Gnome menus. That means something was changed
from Sarge to Etch in such way that Gnome menus are not any more usable.
update-menus does not help to get Gnome applications menu.

Applications menu is empty. Desktop menu and Place are just usable as
normal, but there are no applications. Other applications like perlpanel
which usually was showing Gnome applications as well do not show any
entries now.

The same happens if I create new user and log in the new Gnome session,
or if I use some other older user from Sarge.

I appreciate if someone could help me restore the Gnome applications.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-menus depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.12.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-menu2               2.16.1-2    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  python                       2.4.4-2     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2                2.8.6-8     GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gmenu                 2.16.1-2    an implementation of the freedeskt

gnome-menus recommends no packages.

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