Bug#668649: gnome-menus: No menus or icons in gnome 3

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Package: gnome-menus
Version: 3.2.0.1-2
Severity: important

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   * What led up to the situation?
         aptitude full-upgrade
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Amd64 with nvidia video. When gnome3 first appeared in testing, the
menus, icons and text did not appear which rendered gnome unusable.

Sometime later, the menus started to work, albeit only after restarting X,
but that was tolerable. 

Since an "aptitude full-upgrade" on testing yesterday, the original situation
is back: the gnome desktop has no icons or test. Restarting X (I use
startx to eliminate a few possibilities) no longer restores text and
icons.

Since I remember where the menus are, I can still launch a few
applications including a xterm. xlsfonts shows a full set of fonts, so
the missing text in the gnome menus is not, it seems, an X font problem.

I am very unsure that gnome-menus is really the culprit, but inspecting
/var/log/dpkg.log to see which packages were upgraded when the problem
re-appeared, it was the only package the seemed relevant.

I find it difficult to know how to diagnose gnome-problems: perhaps I
have missed the documentation, but it seems to go out of its way to avoid
providing any useful information.

I have, of course, consulted files like /var/log/Xorg.o.log looking for
clues, but have found nothing so far.

Any suggestions for how to diagnose this problem? If gnome-menus is the
wrong package, where should this report be re-assigned?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-menus depends on:
ii  dpkg    1.16.2
ii  python  2.7.2-10

gnome-menus recommends no packages.

gnome-menus suggests no packages.

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