Kde application menu (kickoff) is empty in KDE5

[aji_pineapple]

I can search for applications in the KDE application menu but not in the menu itself isnt populated. I started KDE wayland
using


exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland 2>error.log



I didn't get the menu when i started KDE on X11 using


exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 ck-launch-session startplasma-x11

either
I seem to have the .desktop files looks like some config or env variable is missing.

/usr/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/fish.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/geoclue-where-am-i.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/gimp.desktop

 $ locate "*.menu"
/usr/local/etc/mc/mc.menu
/usr/local/etc/mc/mcedit.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/kf5-applications.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/lxqt-applications-compact.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/lxqt-applications-fm.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/lxqt-applications-simple.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/lxqt-applications.menu
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/lxqt-config.menu

Also tried this command but it didnt help

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental