Alacarte doesn't run as normal user[Dapper]

Thanks for your bug. Could you run "ls -ld /usr/local/bin" and copy that to a comment?

johan@dapper:~$ ls -ld /usr/local/bin
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-01-07 08:28 /usr/local/bin

Same here! (Dapper Flight 3 live-CD). Cannot start Alacarte as normal user.

If I run
ls -ld /usr/local/bin

I get
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-01-13 12:50 /usr/local/bin

I forgot to mention that I can't run Alacarte with sudo either. Same error.

Just installed Flight 3 with today's updates and Alacarte works now as normal user.

ls -ld /usr/local/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-16 21:15 /usr/local/bin

Suzan, what about you? Does it work for you too?

Daniel, the bug is easy to get: sudo chmod 600 /usr/local/bin

I can confirm this bug. It seems to crash as soon as an icon is not user-accessible.

wouter@ubuntu:~$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 26, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 23, in main
    GnomeFront()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 72, in __ init__
    self.loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 201, in l oadMenus
    self.app_handler = MenuHandler('applications.menu', self.options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/PyXDGMenuHandler.py", line 27, in __init__
    xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.__init__(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 28, in __init_ _
    self.parse(menu, filename, root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 40, in parse
    self.menu = parse(menu)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
    __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(tmp["Root"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNot OnlyAllocated
    __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 859, in __genmenuNot OnlyAllocated
    tmp["cache"].addMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1022, in addMenuEntr ies
    self.__addFiles(dir, "", prefix, legacy)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1036, in __addFiles
    self.__addFiles(dir, os.path.join(subdir,item), prefix, legacy)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1036, in __addFiles
    self.__addFiles(dir, os.path.join(subdir,item), prefix, legacy)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1025, in __addFiles
    for item in os.listdir(os.path.join(dir,subdir)):
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/applications/dvdshrink/32x32'

OK, I'm adding an occurance of this bug in Dapper flight 5, du to permission problems on:
/sbin
/home/ubuntu
/home/ubuntu/.config/menues/settings.menu

once corrected alacarte runs

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs which you find.