I've encountered a simialr bug today on a new install 6.0 rc1 without demo data: Environment Information : System : Darwin-10.5.0-i386-64bit OS Name : posix Your System is not lsb compliant Operating System Release : 10.5.0 Operating System Version : Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386 Operating System Architecture : 64bit Operating System Locale : en_GB.UTF8 Python Version : 2.7.1 OpenERP-Client Version : 6.0.0-rc1-1 Last revision No. & ID :1718