Seems to be a bug in gnome-menus, see the linked upstream bug. I'm testing a fix now.
** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Package changed: alacarte (Ubuntu) => gnome-menus (Ubuntu) ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #677344 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677344 ** Also affects: gnome-menus via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677344 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alacarte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010800 Title: alacarte crashed with AttributeError in getItems(): 'TreeIter' object has no attribute 'get_separator' Status in gnome-menus: Unknown Status in “gnome-menus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Hi, to everyone. I was using xubuntu 12.10 daily, 32 bits, that i take in 09-06-2012 sat. and when i try to change de menu by editing , all the times , they crash. not the menu, but the editor. What i do was, right click on menu, properties than i click on EDIT MENU. All the time shows a crash report asking if i want to send to here. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: alacarte 0.13.4-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Sat Jun 9 04:42:15 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120608) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte'] SourcePackage: alacarte Title: alacarte crashed with AttributeError in getItems(): 'TreeIter' object has no attribute 'get_separator' UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-menus/+bug/1010800/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp