Empty Applications Menu Ubuntu bug
Problem:
No Application menu contents but the Places and System menu contents were ok. Main menu (alacarte) editor not responding.
Story:
I’ve been fooling around with my OS today and i overloaded the main partition with some data and after freeing it something happened and I’ve lost my application menu contents but the System and Places were fine…Tried to edit menu contents but Menu editor didn’t respond. Tried to install Debian menu and i managed to make only Menu editor work by copying Debian menu XML to /home/<user>/.config/menus/applications.menu
Well I could navigate cause i am a happy Gnome-Do user and terminal friendly, but i like it all perfect so…
Killed myself Googling but no solution. And in the end disappointed, I was thinking about reinstalling it with a backup… But then i got the idea and did the following:
Solution:
- Make another account (System > Administration > Users and Groups)
- Fill only username, password and make it Administrator
- Logout
- Login to a new account
- sudo nautilus
- go to /home/<new user>/.config (dont forget to select view hidden files in nautilus menu)
- new window and go to/home/<user>/.config and delete menus folder
- then copy the user-dirs.dirs and user-dirs.locale from /home/<new user>/.config to /home/<user>/.config
- re-login to old account, delete new one
- sudo nautilus
- go to /home/<user>/.config right click on files you have copied and edit permisions to old user
That’s about it… Hope it was useful! 