[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2388: "AssertionError: paths must be Unicode strings" when starting a node

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#2388: "AssertionError: paths must be Unicode strings" when starting a node
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 Reporter:  daira                                |          Owner:  daira
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  critical                             |      Milestone:  1.10.1
Component:  code-nodeadmin                       |        Version:  1.10.0
 Keywords:  regression tahoe-start unicode       |  Launchpad Bug:
  blocks-release                                 |
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 I have tried to install tahoe-lafs on ubuntu 14.04.1 from github source.

 All tests are passed, like in travis.
 But when I try to run the binary: `tahoe start`

 I got the following error:

 {{{
 STARTING '/home/tahoe_user/.tahoe'
 starting node in '/home/tahoe_user/.tahoe'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/scripts/runner.py", line 156, in run
     rc = runner(sys.argv[1:], install_node_control=install_node_control)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/scripts/runner.py", line 135, in runner
     rc = startstop_node.dispatch[command](so, stdout, stderr)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/scripts/startstop_node.py", line 159, in start
     twistd.runApp(twistd_config)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line
 23, in runApp
     _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line
 376, in run
     self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line
 436, in createOrGetApplication
     ser = plg.makeService(self.config.subOptions)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/scripts/startstop_node.py", line 68, in makeService
     return Client(self.basedir)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/client.py", line
 151, in __init__
     self.init_sftp_server()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/client.py", line
 479, in init_sftp_server
     sftp_portstr, pubkey_file, privkey_file)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/frontends/sftpd.py", line 1988, in __init__
     c = AccountFileChecker(self, accountfile)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/frontends/auth.py", line 34, in __init__
     for line in open(abspath_expanduser_unicode(accountfile), "r"):
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages/allmydata/util/fileutil.py", line 314, in
 abspath_expanduser_unicode
     raise AssertionError("paths must be Unicode strings")
 AssertionError: paths must be Unicode strings
 }}}

 And here are my version:

 {{{
 /usr/local/bin/tahoe --version-and-path
 allmydata-tahoe: 1.10.0.post272 [master:
 e9e63c5e72619f4e5811cd1eed31e344db6236c8] (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
 packages)
 foolscap: 0.6.4 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 pycryptopp: 0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958
 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 zfec: 1.4.5 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 Twisted: 13.2.0 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 Nevow: 0.11.1 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 zope.interface: unknown (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope)
 python: 2.7.6 (/usr/bin/python)
 platform: Linux-Ubuntu_14.04-x86_64-64bit_ELF (None)
 pyOpenSSL: 0.13 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 simplejson: 3.3.1 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 pycrypto: 2.6.1 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 pyasn1: 0.1.7 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 mock: 1.0.1 (/usr/lib/python2.7)
 setuptools: 3.3 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 service-identity: 14.0.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 characteristic: 14.3.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7)
 pyasn1-modules: 0.0.5 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)
 }}}

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