Bug 353817 – alacarte crashes on startup

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Bug 353817 - alacarte crashes on startup


Summary:	alacarte crashes on startup


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	alacarte
Classification:	Applications
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Alacarte Maintainer(s)
QA Contact:	Alacarte Maintainer(s)

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	351898 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2006-09-01 10:45 UTC by Wouter Bolsterlee (uws)
Modified:	2006-10-02 03:13 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.15/2.16

Description Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-09-01 10:45:54 UTC

$ alacarte 
Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 71353

File "/opt/gnome-2-16/bin/alacarte", line 36 in ?
```
main()
```
File "/opt/gnome-2-16/bin/alacarte", line 33 in main
```
app.run()
```
File "/opt/gnome-2-16/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 72 in run
```
self.loadMenus()
```
File "/opt/gnome-2-16/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 217 in loadMenus
```
menu_tree.expand_to_path(menu.path)
```

TypeError: path should be a GtkTreePath

Comment 1 Travis Watkins 2006-10-02 03:11:46 UTC

I've never been able to reproduce this one but I've added a workaround.

2006-10-01  Travis Watkins  <alleykat@gmail.com>

        * Alacarte/MainWindow.py: ignore expanding errors

Comment 2 Travis Watkins 2006-10-02 03:13:02 UTC

*** Bug 351898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***