How to fix this error: "Failed to load module: appmenu-gtk-module" ?

drpeppercan · 02-22-2020, 03:32 PM

Code:

gedit texttosend.txt
Gtk-Message: 16:19:46.078: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

I know I can safely ignore it. But if it's not too complicated I wouldn't mind fixing it.

I checked and confirmed that "appmenu-gtk-module" is installed. So why it is not being found?

Thanks guys

DPC

ondoho · 02-25-2020, 02:07 AM

First step:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gtk+Failed+to+load+module+"appmenu-gtk-module"
I'm in a hurry now, more later.

magicalsenpai · 05-02-2020, 06:22 AM

Ngl, the last reply annoyed me enough to make an account. I got the answer from AskUbuntu.

Basically, all you need to do is install the appmenu gtk modules, which you can do in one line:

Code:

~$ sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk2-module appmenu-gtk3-module

Pentium4User · 05-02-2020, 11:12 PM

The correct way to find out the packages name is to use apt-file.

Code:

sudo apt install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search

Code:

root@server:~# apt-file search appmenu-gtk-module
appmenu-gtk-module-common: /usr/lib/systemd/user/appmenu-gtk-module.service
appmenu-gtk-module-common: /usr/share/doc/appmenu-gtk-module-common/changelog.Debian.gz
appmenu-gtk-module-common: /usr/share/doc/appmenu-gtk-module-common/copyright
appmenu-gtk2-module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
appmenu-gtk3-module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules/libappmenu-gtk-module.so
root@server:~#

ondoho · 05-06-2020, 01:05 AM

^ That's definitely good to know.

Quote:

Originally Posted by magicalsenpai

Ngl, the last reply annoyed me enough to make an account. I got the answer from AskUbuntu.

Which is literally the first result from the search query I posted.
I do put some effort into sharing search queries, you know.
I prefer to teach people how to fish, not throw them one.
If they're too miffed to click the link, that's their problem.

andrewysk · 05-24-2021, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

^ That's definitely good to know.

Which is literally the first result from the search query I posted.
I do put some effort into sharing search queries, you know.
I prefer to teach people how to fish, not throw them one.
If they're too miffed to click the link, that's their problem.

Thats sound fine to me.

I have manage to do a fsck on corrupted Fs on my partition and entered into DE, but this same "failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module" prompted when i try to run firefox.. My firefox was fine on this computer, I believe linux in this computer is corrupted , hence fsck prompted me " missing Inode" during the scan.

happysmash27 · 10-03-2021, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

First step:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gtk+Failed+to+load+module+"appmenu-gtk-module"
I'm in a hurry now, more later.

My search of this, very similar to those exact words, at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=failed+to+...+gentoo&ia=web, leads to this page as the second result... Asking people to look things up is not helpful when the search engine leads to the same forum thread people ask people to look things up in.

shruggy · 10-03-2021, 04:23 PM

Well, apt-file obviously won't help you on Gentoo. The corresponding Gentoo tool is e-file. Besides the command line, there's also a web interface to PFL:
https://www.portagefilelist.de/site/query/file

For the benefit of users of other distributions, I'll give a couple of links dealing with this question:
https://ostechnix.com/find-package-p...fic-file-linux
https://linux-audit.com/determine-fi...elated-package

ondoho · 10-04-2021, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by happysmash27

My search of this, very similar to those exact words, at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=failed+to+...+gentoo&ia=web, leads to this page as the second result... Asking people to look things up is not helpful when the search engine leads to the same forum thread people ask people to look things up in.

Well then the AskUbuntu article somebody linked isn't going to help you either.

You need to prepend a + to the gentoo keyword:

Quote:

failed to load appmenu-gtk-module +gentoo

Possibly even:

Quote:

failed to load appmenu-gtk-module +"gentoo"

Also, putting the distro first sometimes helps:

Quote:

+gentoo failed to load appmenu-gtk-module

Try it, very different results.