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

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Armando Romero wrote:
> Further, I don't see how is this related, because menu items are not
> generated in any other Gnome related menus (like under KDE, IceWm,
> perlpanel...) It is not about spotting changed files, what I believe fam
> and gamin do.

 It is a commonly seen symptom that the menu is empty when gamin
 crashes, hence my question.

> Please if you have some other smart idea, let me know, and I will try
> out, as I would like to use Gnome.

 You can try strace on the panel.  You can also try creating a new user
 to see whether it is affected by the problem in the default config.

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>