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When I have installed winedoors and steam and then reboot my computer my startmenu is broken.
The field to the right in the menu looks like this....

Could not load module: applications
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py", line 229, in PopulatePlugins
MyPlugin = X.pluginclass( self, self.toggle )

File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 205, in __init__
mymenu = Menu( mainitems )

File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 80, in __init__
self.directory = xdg.Menu.parse( menu )

File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 65, in xdgParsePatched
xdg.Menu.__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(xdg.Menu.tmp["Root"])

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
__genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/xdg/Menu.py", line 859, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
tmp["cache"].addMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs)



This has happent twice now!
How could I fix this problem? last time I reinstall my computer.

This should be solved by right clicking the menu > Reload plugins
If that does not help right click the menu > Remove from panel followed by Add to panel

Sorry but none of the thing solve my problem.
When I add the menu I got the same error.

Now I manage to see a startmenu.
I could not add mint startmenu but I add another one and this one is working.

Thanks for the help.

I have seen this or very similar errors, but no solution
Have to search a bit more because I'm pretty much convinced I've seen the solution
You have found the gnome menu - you normally get it with Alt+F1 or possibly SuperL
I'll come back to you

I've had this before. Whatever the corruption is it's somewhere in one of the configuration files in the home folder.

@ pluraldave
You got it!
One way of fixing this would be to mark mintMenu for complete removal in Synaptic and after that reinstall it