Public bug reported:
alacarte does not start because of menu entries that contain non-utf-8
characters
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 26, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 23, in main
GnomeFront()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 72, in
__init__
self.loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 205, in
loadMenus
self.sys_handler = MenuHandler('settings.menu', self.options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/PyXDGMenuHandler.py", line
27, in __init__
xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.__init__(
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 28, in
__init__
self.parse(menu, filename, root)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 40, in parse
self.menu = parse(menu)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(tmp["Root"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 859, in
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
tmp["cache"].addMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1022, in
addMenuEntries
self.__addFiles(dir, "", prefix, legacy)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1036, in __addFiles
self.__addFiles(dir, os.path.join(subdir,item), prefix, legacy)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1028, in __addFiles
menuentry = MenuEntry(os.path.join(subdir,item), dir, prefix)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 65, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 47-50: invalid
data
Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'alacarte';
however, that package was not published in Baltix.
** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
** Affects: Baltix
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Rejected
** Also affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
** Changed in: Baltix
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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alacarte does not start
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46027
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