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Hanynowsky
Asked: 2012-11-30 15:28:02 +0800 CST

Global Menu broken for Gnome Applications after adding GNOME 3 PPA

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After using the GNOME3 PPA to upgrade Nautilus , (I have been working with it for several days without problems), the Global Menu broke for all Gnome-application, like totem, gnome-terminaL, nautilus 3.4, etc...). At the same time, when I launch any of these applications from terminal, I get the following error:

Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:62:17: Theming engine 'unico' not found

I purged the GNOME3 PPA, re-updated, auto-cleaned, dist-upgraded, downgraded Nautilus, reinstalled the gtk3-engines-unico and appmenu, but in vain.

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Anyone has a clue of fixing this?

~$ apt-cache policy gtk3-engines-unico
gtk3-engines-unico:
  Installed: 1.0.2+r139-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.0.2+r139-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.2+r139-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

~$ apt-show-versions gtk3-engines-unico
gtk3-engines-unico/quantal uptodate 1.0.2+r139-0ubuntu2

The Unico issue seems to be known in RR.13.04.

I have Installed gtk3-engines-unico from RR-13.04, to see if it fixes the issue but in vain. Now I get a different error message when running a Gnome application from Terminal:

Failed to load type module: (null)

menu_proxy_module_load': /usr/bin/python:
undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

But what about 12.10?

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1 Answers

  1. Ok. Solved the problem.

    The problem came from libgtk-3-0. A newer version (3.6.2) than the one in quantal archive ( 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2 ) was still kept in the system.

    Actually, the GNOME3 PPA purging when I first did it, was not performed correctly due to a bug in the ppa-purge package in quantal official archives (multi arch bug). So I :

    • installed a new version of ppa-purge which fixed the bug.
    • re-added the GNOME3 PPA again : sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3.
    • ran ppa-purge again : sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

    It downgraded all the packages installed from GNOME3 PPA to the ones from the official quantal archives.

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