Alacarte - Permission Error

[Conquistador]

Hello, I recently just re-installed F7 on my machine, and have run into a problem when trying to run alacarte. Here's the output when I try to run it from a terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 59, in __loadMenus
    self.save(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 63, in save
    fd = open(getattr(self, menu).path, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/Alex/.config/menus/applications.menu'

If anybody could help me out here, that'd be great.

[Iron_Mike]

Have you tried running it as root?????

[Conquistador]

Yes, I have, and yes, it works, but I've never had to do that before. Is there a way to fix it so I don't have to run it as root?

[SlowJet]

It works as user and is on the Control Center.
But a simple permissions denied would not cause a trace back or IOError
This looks supect fd =open(getattr(self, menu).path, 'w')
The disk may have an IO error
Or a bug.
How are your update? Check bugzilla.

SJ

[Conquistador]

I got it working. It turns out that the folders .local and .config and everything in them were owned by root. I changed the ownership back to me, and everything works fine now.