[support] Can't add user in D6: illegal choice

[Luke]

Okay, one final update: the dblog is showing "Illegal choice 2 in Roles 
element" in relation to this error.

One google result for that, and it is a non-helpful D5 post about the 
gallery module.

Luke


On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Luke wrote:

> Update:
> 
> I figured it would be quick enough to just install a copy of 6.11 to a 
> pure directory, and try again.
> 
> Well, exactly the same thing happens.
> 
> I created a role called "special user", and selected it in the roles for 
> the new user which I called "spectest" (although I have tried other 
> names).
> 
> There are no modules beyond core default active in this copy.
> 
> I have tried deselecting the "special user" role, and the "notify user of 
> new account".  I have tried changing the username, and trying different 
> passwords.
> 
> "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site 
> administrator."
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Luke
> 
>  On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Luke wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have been a user of D5 for quite some time, but because a somewhat 
> > urgent project requires features which it doesn't have, I'm playing with 
> > D6.10 and filefield_sources.
> > 
> >  I receive the following error when trying to create a user:
> > 
> > An illegal choice has been detected.  Please contact the site 
> > administrator.
> > 
> > Well, that's me, and I've not a clue.
> > 
> > I did get the following error, while trying to add a node of a type I 
> > created.  The type has a filefield field associated with it, into which I 
> > had uploaded a file, and this happen on save:
> > 
> >      * warning: array_merge_recursive() 
> > [function.array-merge-recursive]:
> >        recursion detected in
> >        /home/webusers/.../drupal6/includes/module.inc on line 473.
> > 
> > I have no idea what factors might be involved here, as this is the first 
> > node of any content type which I have added, and the first user after the 
> > administrative account.
> > 
> > I'll pull D6 and start from scratch if I have to, testing as I go, but I 
> > thought I'd ask here first.
> > 
> > The modules at play are:
> > 
> > advanced_help  filefield_paths    imce        transliteration
> > cck            filefield_sources  mimedetect  views
> > filefield      getid3             token
> > 
> > Oh, the getid3 module is currently broken, because it can not find the 
> > main library on which it depends, on my Ubuntu system.
> > 
> > Luke
> > --
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> > 
> 
> 

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