When I have Administration theme set up to a theme (e.g. Garnald) different than the system default (e.g. zen), the setting page for the default theme (e.g. admin/build/block) [which is displayed in Garland format, as expected] does not show the right block settings. It shows the settings for the administration theme. Also, changing anything in that page does not change the settings of the default system (zen) but the admin theme (Garland)

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zoo33 commented
Title: Block setting does not display right settings » Unable to change default theme's block settings
Version: 6.1 » 6.2

I'm seeing this too. If I use Garland as the admin theme I cannot access the block configuration for my default theme. Switching between the two themes with the tabs on the block page doesn't change the displayed theme, the available regions or the current block settings for the themes. (drdrup: The page is supposed to be displayed with the theme that is currently chosen, not the admin theme.) I have to set the admin theme setting to "default" in order to change the default theme's block settings.

It doesn't make a difference if Garland (the admin theme) is enabled on the theme settings page or not. I also tried using Bluemarine as the admin theme and Garland as the standard theme. Same problem.

Needless to say, this is a nasty bug.

I'm running Drupal 6.2.

Changing the title to make it a little more clear – hopefully.

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federico commented

I'm having the same issue, but on version 5.7. Curiously, I have a copy of the site on localhost (same database and theme), and on localhost there is no prob

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federico commented

after some hours it got solved, maybe cache was updated or something else. Sorry if my issue doesn't belong here

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zoo33 commented
Project: Drupal core » SimpleMenu
Version: 6.2 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: block.module » Code

On a different site I experienced this bug only after I enabled SimpleMenu. (I'm using it on the first site too.) Disabling it solves the issue. So I guess this issue belongs to SimpleMenu – or could it be that SimpleMenu triggers a bug in Core?

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zoo33 commented

This discussion on the dev list sounds like a similar issue. The problem might be that Simplenews calls theme() in a hook that runs early. I had a look and found that simplenews_footer() calls simplenews_get_menu() which calls simplenews_menu_tree() which calls theme(). But I don't think that can be the problem – you should be able to call theme() from hook_footer(), right?

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Priority: Normal » Critical

This issue happens even if on the simplemenu settings page you disable simplemenu on your admin theme. Simplemenu does not get disabled and you are still unable to configure blocks.

Since this causes major loss of functionality in core I'm bumping this to critical.

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zroger commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

fixed in #336119.