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

[Zachary Peterson]

>>>>> Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi at mithrandi.net> writes:

> The following command should reproduce the process used by Electrum
> 1.9.8 to load the config file:

> python -c 'import ast, os; print
> ast.literal_eval(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.electrum/config")))'

> This should fail with a Python exception; could you reply to this bug
> with the output?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 80, in literal_eval
    return _convert(node_or_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 79, in _convert
    raise ValueError('malformed string')
ValueError: malformed string

> (The problem could be that your configuration is corrupt somehow, or
> the file is unreadable for some reason. Another possibility is that
> you have run a newer version of Electrum somehow; newer versions use a
> different format for the configuration and wallet files, and will
> upgrade it automatically, making older versions unable to read the
> files.)
That seems a likely cause. I was running Testing for a while before
reverting to Stable due to some issues with other packages.

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