Opened at 2011-08-08T03:17:29Z
Last modified at 2012-04-01T01:11:47Z
#1470 closed defect
tahoe.cfg with UTF-8 BOM should be accepted — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | davidsarah | Owned by: | somebody |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.9.2 |
| Component: | code | Version: | 1.8.2 |
| Keywords: | unicode config reviewed | Cc: | |
| Launchpad Bug: |
Description
tahoe.cfg is supposed to be encoded in UTF-8. Most editors on Windows save UTF-8 files with an initial Byte Order Mark, but that causes an error on starting the node:
C:\tahoe\furry>bin\tahoe start
STARTING 'C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
ne 631, in run
runApp(config)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\scripts\twistd.py", lin
e 23, in runApp
_SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
ne 374, in run
self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
ne 439, in createOrGetApplication
application = getApplication(self.config, passphrase)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
ne 450, in getApplication
application = service.loadApplication(filename, style, passphrase)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\service.py"
, line 400, in loadApplication
application = sob.loadValueFromFile(filename, 'application', passphrase)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\persisted\sob.py", line
210, in loadValueFromFile
exec fileObj in d, d
File "tahoe-client.tac", line 10, in <module>
c = client.Client()
File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\client.py", line 133, in __init__
node.Node.__init__(self, basedir)
File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\node.py", line 73, in __init__
self.read_config()
File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\node.py", line 122, in read_config
self.config.read([os.path.join(self.basedir, "tahoe.cfg")])
File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 297, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 504, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe\tahoe.cfg, line: 1
'\xef\xbb\xbf# -*- mode: conf; coding: utf-8 -*-\n'
Failed to load application: File contains no section headers.
file: C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe\tahoe.cfg, line: 1
'\xef\xbb\xbf# -*- mode: conf; coding: utf-8 -*-\n'
This may also apply to other configuration files.
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