[Bug 79205] Alacarte crashes and missed menus

[michelem]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: alacarte

After last Feisty Fawn upgrade Alacarte crashes and there are several
menus items missed like: the entire Applications menu and the system ->
preferences and system -> administrator replaced by GNOME Control Center

mik at goa:~$ alacarte 
/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/bonobo/__init__.py: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
    self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 926, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
    parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0

** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Alacarte crashes and missed menus
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79205