Comment 2 for bug 613358

My ~/.config/menus path contained following after this failure:
patben@esp-patben-lin:~/.config/menus$ ls -lR
.:
razem 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 patben patben 366 2010-08-04 10:27 applications.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 patben patben 4096 2010-08-04 09:38 applications-merged
-rw-r--r-- 1 patben patben 404 2010-08-04 10:27 settings.menu

./applications-merged:
razem 0
patben@esp-patben-lin:~/.config/menus$

And my applications.menu file contained only the following:
patben@esp-patben-lin:~/Backup/.config/menus$ cat applications.menu
<!DOCTYPE Menu
  PUBLIC '-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN'
  'http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-1.0.dtd'>
<Menu>
 <Name>Applications</Name>
 <MergeFile type="parent">/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu</MergeFile>
 <Menu>
  <Name>Development</Name>
  <Include>
   <Filename>SQuirreL SQL Client.desktop</Filename>
  </Include>
 </Menu>
 <Deleted/>
</Menu>

After additional search I have copied /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to ~/.config/menus. After that, all menu entries has appeared back... together with "" (empty name) entry.
Alacarte has started properly, I have moved squirrel SQL shortcut again to "Programming" entry.
Now I payed more attention, when "(empty)" was selected "Delete" button was greyed out.
I have clicked "squirrel" shortcut in menu entry and deleted it - went fine.
I have clicked "(empty)" - "delete" button was still grey.
I tried to move "(empty)" to subsection of "Accessories" with hope i will be able to delete it.
Then all menu entries has disappeared and after I closed it, terminal contained:
patben@esp-patben-lin:/etc/xdg/menus$ alacarte

** (alacarte:3726): WARNING **: Error loading menu layout from "/home/patben/.config/menus/applications.menu": Line 6 character 9: Element <Old> is required to contain text and was empty

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 112, in loadUpdates
    self.loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 213, in loadMenus
    self.loadMenu(iters, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 228, in loadMenu
    iters[depth] = self.menu_store.append(None, (icon, cgi.escape(parent.get_name()), parent))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_name'

Conclusion: previously I have accidentally moved "(empty)" menu entry to another section, which has triggered disappearance of all menu entries. Should this be reported as separate bug? I remind you, that this bug concerns crash of alacarte, when there are no menu entries.