unable to read applications menu

Hi,

i just did a fresh install of gnome-2.20.3 (from binary
packages) and I've run into an odd problem...I can't pull
down 
the applications menu...all the other ones in the panel work
fine, but the applications menu refuses all attempts to be 
pulled down.  Where should I look to start troubleshooting
this? I'm running svn orca/at/spi/atk/gail from today, but 
the same behavior existed with orca and friends from the
stock gnome-2.20.3 distro...thanks for any help...

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Looking a bit further, I found this printed to the console
from where I started X:

** (gnome-panel:3287): CRITICAL **:
gmenu_tree_directory_get_contents: assertion `directory !=
NULL' failedOn Sat, Mar 
08, 2008 at 09:32:31PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just did a fresh install of gnome-2.20.3 (from binary
packages) and I've run into an odd problem...I can't pull
down 
> the applications menu...all the other ones in the panel
work fine, but the applications menu refuses all attempts to
be 
> pulled down.  Where should I look to start
troubleshooting this? I'm running svn orca/at/spi/atk/gail
from today, but 
> the same behavior existed with orca and friends from
the stock gnome-2.20.3 distro...thanks for any help...
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-list mailing list
> Orca-listgnome.org
> http
://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca
 for more information on Orca
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