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 |
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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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