[Bug 29961] Refuses to launch.

[qkslvrwolf]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29961

Affects: smeg (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Refuses to launch. When I try from command line, I get the following:  
http://ubuntu.pastebin.ca/38972

or
   1.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
   2.
        File "/usr/bin/smeg", line 562, in ?
   3.
          main()
   4.
        File "/usr/bin/smeg", line 558, in main
   5.
          smeg = Smeg()
   6.
        File "/usr/bin/smeg", line 61, in __init__
   7.
          self.handler = MenuHandler(self, self.options)
   8.
        File "/usr/lib/smeg/MenuHandler.py", line 56, in __init__
   9.
          xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.__init__(self, menu_path, root=options.root_mode)
  10.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 28, in __init__
  11.
          self.parse(menu, filename, root)
  12.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 42, in parse
  13.
          self.menu = parse()
  14.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
  15.
          __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(tmp["Root"])
  16.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 850, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
  17.
          __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  18.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 850, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
  19.
          __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  20.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 850, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
  21.
          __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  22.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 853, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
  23.
          tmp["cache"].addMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs)
  24.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1016, in addMenuEntries
  25.
          self.__addFiles(dir, "", prefix, legacy)
  26.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1030, in __addFiles
  27.
          self.__addFiles(dir, os.path.join(subdir,item), prefix, legacy)
  28.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1022, in __addFiles
  29.
          menuentry = MenuEntry(os.path.join(subdir,item), dir, prefix)
  30.
        File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 65, in join
  31.
          path += '/' + b
  32.
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 26-28: invalid data