The following crashes with the error:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}[topsep=20pt]
\item item1
\item item2
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Works ok with english babel. I tried the option loadonly like in enumitem conflicts with galician but without success. Crashes also with french babel.
I found a workaround:
use
\begin{enumerate}[topsep=20pt,label=--]
instead of
\begin{itemize}[topsep=20pt]
TeXLive2012
fully updated). Do you have an up to date version of both packagesbabel
andenumitem
?\filelist
to the preamble shows the newest package that my system loads on that example is enumitem.sty2011/09/28 v3.5.2 Customized lists do you have an older/newer version?