I have the same bug. Workaround, proposed by Alain A Servais, works for me.
-- 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/1057603 Title: alacarte crashed with ValueError in load(): can not load menu tree 'applications.menu' Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Apport tried to restart alacarte after reporting bug 1057600, and it crashes on startup... ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: alacarte 3.5.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Thu Sep 27 19:49:10 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318) 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 ValueError in load(): can not load menu tree 'applications.menu' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-23 (4 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare tape video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1057603/+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
