Comment 21 for bug 558806

this is gdb output when scanning dvb T frontend with France/I don't know :

(gdb) run /usr/bin/gnome-dvb-setup
Starting program: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gnome-dvb-setup
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
ERROR:dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments (177500000, 4, 7, '2k', 'NONE', 'AUTO', 'QAM64', 0) according to signature u'usu': <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Expected a string or unicode object
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnomedvb/ui/wizard/SetupWizard.py", line 115, in on_prepare
    self.__adapter_info["frontend"], self.tuning_data_page.get_tuning_data ())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnomedvb/ui/wizard/pages/ChannelScanPage.py", line 156, in start_scanning
    self._scanner.add_scanning_data(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gnomedvb/DBusWrapper.py", line 259, in add_scanning_data
    self.scanner.AddScanningData (*data, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 610, in call_blocking
    message.append(signature=signature, *args)
TypeError: Expected a string or unicode object

It seems that the variety of format for channels.conf makes it tricky as in all differently available output of scan (xine,vdr,...)