Bug#407033: gnome-menus: After upgrade to Etch: Applications menu is empty and never gets populated

[Armando Romero]

Dear Loïc Minier,

>  Do you have fam or gamin installed?  Could you restart fam or kill
>  gamin if you do
I have been installing various programs and have noticed that gamin and
fam conflicts together, and cannot be installed on same system:

Package: gamin
Conflicts: fam

When I start gnome, this is started: /usr/lib/gamin/gamin_server

Nothing is enabled in /etc/gamin/gaminrc.

I have already tried using fam due to similar advice from #debian at
irc.debian.org and today I  tried again and this is result:

I had to automatically remove:

gamin
libgamin-dev
libgamin0
python-gamin
sabayon

in order to get fam working. I have logged in as new user into new Gnome
session and following was running:

/usr/sbin/famd -T 0

and there were no menu items under Gnome Applications.

Further, I don't see how is this related, because menu items are not
generated in any other Gnome related menus (like under KDE, IceWm,
perlpanel...) It is not about spotting changed files, what I believe fam
and gamin do.

Please if you have some other smart idea, let me know, and I will try
out, as I would like to use Gnome.

Armando