I've had this problem too, even from a clean install, my ~./local directory (and all its contents) were owned by root.
Running sudo chown against this directory as explained above fixed the problem for me? -- Edit Menus closes Main Menu unexpectedly https://launchpad.net/bugs/95840 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
