Problem with alacarte

[Kousik Maiti]

Hi List,
I am facing problem with alacarte. When I run it from terminal I get the
following error when I running it from one particular user:-
No protocol specified
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning:
could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 50,
in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36,
in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46,
in __loadMenus
    self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
    parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0