Strange GNOME menu behaviour

[jean gruneberg]

Ed Schofield wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Since about a week ago, which seemed to coincide with applying Ubuntu's
> latest security updates, items in my GNOME Applications menu have been
> impossible to select.  The Places and System menus are fine, but
> clicking Applications flashes up the menu for about a quarter of a
> second before the menu disappears.  Since then I've been launching
> programs using the command prompt, but it's a bit annoying, and I'd like
> to try to fix this.  Has anyone heard of anything like this?  It looks
> like a bug in gnome-panel, but I haven't been able to find any other
> reports of this.  So I guess I'll just try re-creating my menu config
> files for now.  Could anyone suggest a clean way to do this?  I'd
> appreciate any help!
> 
> -- Ed
> 
 From previous discussions.....

Drop into a terminal screen (ctrl-alt-f1)
log in with user name and password

sudo apt-get install menu
update-menus

ctrl-alt-f7 back to gnome

Jean