This was a permissions error on .config/menu which was a result of running alacarte with sudo previously. I did this because the "Edit Menus" selection was not working. I can confirm that alacarte works as expected on Lucid when run from a terminal.
-- Editing Menus Alacarte in Lucid does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs