[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#803949: electrum: Electrum unable to start; Cannot read config file

[Zachary Peterson]

Package: electrum
Version: 1.9.8-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I've never had this problem before, but after recently re-installing
Debian, I am unable to start Electrum. When I try from the command line,
I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/electrum", line 174, in <module>
    config = SimpleConfig(config_options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/simple_config.py", line 33, in __init__
    self.read_user_config()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/simple_config.py", line 157, in read_user_config
    raise IOError("Cannot read config file.")
IOError: Cannot read config file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages electrum depends on:
ii  python           2.7.9-1
ii  python-electrum  1.9.8-4

electrum recommends no packages.

electrum suggests no packages.

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