Re: AssertionError: paths must be Unicode strings

[Daira Hopwood]

On 25/02/15 17:00, ek...@posteo.eu wrote:
> Hello to everyone!
> 
> I have tried to install tahoe-lafs on ubuntu 14.04.1 from github source.
> 
> All tests are passed, like in travis.
> But when i try to run the binary: tahoe start
> 
> i got the following error:
[...]
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/frontends/sftpd.py", 
> line 1988,
> in __init__
>     c = AccountFileChecker(self, accountfile)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/frontends/auth.py", 
> line 34, in
> __init__
>     for line in open(abspath_expanduser_unicode(accountfile), "r"):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/util/fileutil.py", 
> line 314, in
> abspath_expanduser_unicode
>     raise AssertionError("paths must be Unicode strings")
> AssertionError: paths must be Unicode strings

Thanks for the clear bug report, I've filed it as
<https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2388>.

I suspect that this may be a recent regression due to
<https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/pull/138>.

Does your home directory path have any non-ASCII characters in it, by the way?

-- 
Daira Hopwood ⚥

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