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We often hit a problem with the admin menus in Magento.  Typically they stop working (no dropdowns) after we install the modern theme for Magento.  Today though we encountered it straight away on a fresh Magento install.

Fortunately the fix is straightforward:

1. chmod 755 the js/ folder, and folders within.
2. chmod 644 the javascript files inside js/lib/
3. chmod 644 js/index.php

Thanks to Proxy for pointing us in this direction.  He also recommends replacing a core head.php file; we’ve never found this necessary though, and the system works with just the file permission fixes.