The same solution worked for me on Gutsy. More precisely I made the following command:
sudo chown -R jeremy:jeremy ~/.config/menus -- [apport] alacarte crashed with IOError in save() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs