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Bug 96210 - gnome-settings-daemon should report more detailed errors
gnome-settings-daemon should report more detailed errors
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92574
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] settings-daemon
2.0.x
Other other
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-18 21:42 UTC by Soeren Sonnenburg
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Soeren Sonnenburg 2002-10-18 21:42:24 UTC 
since an upgrade I get

"Type mismatch: Expected list of list, got list of list when starting gnome"

but it does not say for which key and I have no idea how to figure this out :-/

the only error message is:
error "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information
for gnome-settings-daemon. Some of your configuration settings may not work
properly."
"Type mismatch: Expected list of list, got list of list when starting gnome"

I am using
gnome-settings-daemon --version
Gnome gnome-settings-daemon 2.0.1.1
Comment 1 Andrew Sobala 2002-11-01 16:31:26 UTC 
OK. This bug is a request for better error messages. The bug that
"list of list" appears in the first place is bug 92574.
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2002-11-02 10:47:42 UTC 
This string is really in GConf. Moving it there.
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-02 15:35:15 UTC 
I fixed the error message, but the error message indicates that 
gnome-settings-daemon is asking for a list of lists, which is not 
allowed (programming bug in gnome-settings-daemon), so bouncing 
this back. I believe if gconf was compiled with checks, 
this would have done a g_return_if_fail
Comment 4 Andrew Sobala 2002-11-02 16:16:37 UTC 
AFAICT that's exactly what bug 92574 is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92574 ***