Lost the menu line in Gnumeric (Warty)

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

I've had Gnumeric running for some days, when I tried to start a new
window today the menu line was gone.  On Friday I ran some application
which started Gnome, or some part of it, on my remote Cygwin display,
so I guess something was written to my dot files and which fouls up my
system.

I tried reinstalling gnumeric (with Synaptic) and got this output:

    Preconfiguring packages ...
    (Reading database ... 100823 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace gnumeric 1.2.13-1ubuntu2 (using .../gnumeric_1.2.13-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement gnumeric ...
    Preparing to replace gnumeric-common 1.2.13-1ubuntu2 (using .../gnumeric-common_1.2.13-1ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement gnumeric-common ...
    Preparing to replace gnumeric-plugins-extra 1.2.13-1ubuntu2 (using .../gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.2.13-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement gnumeric-plugins-extra ...
    Setting up gnumeric (1.2.13-1ubuntu2) ...
    
    Setting up gnumeric-common (1.2.13-1ubuntu2) ...
    
    ** (process:3884): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
    
    ** (process:3884): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
    
    ** (process:3884): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
    
    Setting up gnumeric-plugins-extra (1.2.13-1ubuntu2) ...
    
    Successfully applied all changes. You can close the window now

After a bit of googling I found a Debian discussion
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2004/11/msg00093.html) which
claimed that there could be some mplayer oddities and claimed that the
user needed to run "sudo update-desktop-database -v" so I did, but I
got the same "CRITICAL" messages.  I then uninstalled mplayer-custom,
which I haven't used for some months (or never) and reran
update-desktop-database which then without giving me the "CRITICAL"
messages (but with a lot of lines like this one:

    File '/usr/share/applications/devhelp.desktop' lacks MimeType key

but I assume that is something else missing!?).  I then reinstalled
gnumeric again and now the output was nice and clean - but the menu is
still gone.

Anyone know how to reintroduce the menu in Gnumeric?

	Affi