Bug#803949: electrum: Electrum unable to start; Cannot read config file

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

Bug#803949: electrum: Electrum unable to start; Cannot read config file

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 at 17:09 Zachary Peterson wrote: > 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. This error is raised if an exception

Bug#803949: electrum: Electrum unable to start; Cannot read config file

> Tristan Seligmann 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

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

Hello, That is right. You should use 2.5.2 or newer - 1.9.8, aside the fact that it uses only old version seeds, it won't be able to sign a transaction and broadcast it to the network because it doesn't contain the low-S enforcement in ECDSA signatures update. So you will have a hard time