From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I am using a VIA VT82C686 audio device (integrated into the motherboard) with my copy of Red Hat Linux 8. Whenever I start gnome-volume-control, the app reports an error regarding saving/loading the mixer settings. The plain error message is as follows: "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-volume-control. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly." When I click Details, it generates the following detailed error description: --- Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/vol": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/pcm": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/speaker": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/line": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/mic": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/cd": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/igain": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/line1": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/phin": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/phout": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-volume-control/OSS-SigmaTel_STAC????-1/video": `?' is an invalid character in key/directory names --- The app doesn't seem to have any trouble afterwards, and I am able to adjust and keep my audio and volume settings just fine. Perhaps the app is reporting a bogus error? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.You must be using a motherboard with the aforementioned audio hardware 2.Open gnome-volume-control 3. Actual Results: The aforementioned error message occurs. Expected Results: Clean usage of app. -- no error messages. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75144 ***