Recovered my gnome but alacarte doesn't run

[Manish Jain]

Hi all,

I crashed my gnome with a brilliant idea I had a few days back. After 
about 100 man-hours and 500 MB of downloads, I have recovered my gnome 
except for one glitch : alacarte doesn't run. I suppose I could sit down 
some more and trace the problem, but 1) I am exhausted and 2) I am sure 
any gtk/python user could readily point out what is missing in my setup.

Below is the output of alacarte :

>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/alacarte", line 22, in <module>
>     from Alacarte.MainWindow import MainWindow
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 19, in <module>
>     import gtk, gtk.glade, gmenu, gobject, gio
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 38, in <module>
>     import gobject as _gobject
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
>     from glib import spawn_async, idle_add, timeout_add, timeout_add_seconds, \
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
>     from glib._glib import *
> ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so: Undefined symbol "PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8"
> 
> [1]+  Exit 1                  alacarte


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you and Regards
Manish Jain
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