Why launching applications through Application menu does not work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7?

Issue

• Why launching applications through Application menu does not work on RHEL 7?

• Getting JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: can't convert event.get_time() to an integer in /var/log/messages and journalctl log.

  Jun 05 17:09:14 hostname gnome-session[29144]: JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: can't convert event.get_time() to an integer
  Jun 05 17:09:14 hostname gnome-session[29144]: JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"can't convert event.get_time() to an integer"'
  Jun 05 17:09:14 hostname gnome-session[29144]: JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/extension.js"'
  Jun 05 17:09:14 hostname gnome-session[29144]: JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '77'
  Jun 05 17:09:14 hostname gnome-session[29144]: JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object GObject_Union])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/extension.js:77
  

• Cannot start anything from the GNOME toolbar. When opening the Applications or Places tabs on the top panel of GNOME, I can view and highlight options, but they will not open.