Re: [Help-gnunet] Malformed configuration file

[Doug]

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Hi Christian,
   Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply. I'm stoked that this is an
alpha+ quality project; indeed, I'm eager to contribute where I can.

   My output of
     $ set | grep GNUNET
is:

GNUNET_PREFIX=/home/<user-name>/Applications/ThirdParty/gnunet-0.10.0/
And I have never manually set this environment variable. I guess it
was set by the build/install?

   Exporting GNUNET_PREFIX=/usr/local/ in my /home/<user-name>/.bashrc
has fixed the WARNING and ERROR. Yea!

   I was using "$HOME" in this email as an abbreviation to keep from
broadcasting my user-name to this list. The directory
"/home/<user-name>/Applications/ThirdParty/" is just where I put and
build downloaded code, so it's where I built gnunet and all the other
dependencies.
   Perhaps adding a hint to the build instructions will save you time
answering this same question in the future?

Thanks Again, and keep up the great work,
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On 02/08/2014 01:29 PM, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 06:39 PM, Doug wrote:
>> Hello GNUnet Helpers,
>> 
>> I am working through installing and running GNUnet on Debian
>> 7.2. I've been following the build instructions for Debian 7.3,
>> but with installing the nettle and gstreamer* libraries "by hand"
>> rather than using the testing and unstable Debian repos (since
>> switching to such a thing makes me nervous :-/).
>> 
>> The build has gone well -- great job on the hand-holding 
>> instructions! -- but I am now getting a WARNING and an ERROR when
>> it comes to the "start the per-user services" installation step. 
>> To wit: $ gnunet-arm -c ~/.config/gnunet.conf -s outputs: Feb 08
>> 12:16:17-195229 util-16710 WARNING `stat' failed on file 
>> `$HOME/Applications/ThirdParty/gnunet-0.10.0/share/gnunet/config.d'
>> at disk.c:1177 with error: No such file or directory Feb 08
>> 12:16:17-195311 gnunet-arm-16710 ERROR Malformed configuration
>> file `$HOME/.config/gnunet.conf', exit ...
> 
> Did you by chance set "GNUNET_PREFIX=$HOME/Applications/..."
> (where $HOME is not even expanded?).  Otherwise I have a hard time
> explaining how you got that odd log message.  $HOME should have
> been expanded, and in your case the path should have been
> /usr/local/share/ThirdParty/... instead of $HOME/Applications/.  So
> the output of
> 
> $ set | grep GNUNET
> 
> would be helpful here.
> 
>> My questions are: 0) Is there a better or more productive venue
>> to ask such questions? Would you prefer I file a bug report?
>> Where?
> 
> Asking questions here (or on IRC, #gnunet on irc.freenode.net) is
> fine, if you're reasonably sure it's a bug report, use 
> https://gnunet.org/bugs/ to file bug reports.
> 
>> 1) It seems to me that the method generating the first warning 
>> should be looking in "/usr/local/share/gnunet/config.d/" rather
>> than 
>> "$HOME/Applications/ThirdParty/gnunet-0.10.0/share/gnunet/config.d/".
>>
>> 
(Note that "$HOME/Applications/ThirdParty/" is just where I put third
>> party sources.) Is there a way to direct gnunet-arm to look in
>> the correct folder?
> 
> Well, it usually uses various heuristics (location of
> libgnunetutil.so, location of the gnunet-arm binary) to determine
> the correct path.  You can overwrite those by setting the
> GNUNET_PREFIX environment variable (to the share/-folder, leave out
> gnunet/config.d), but you should not have to...
> 
>> 2) The ERROR seems to be generated by the config file that I 
>> copy/pasted directly from the instructions, i.e.
>> "[arm]\nSYSTEM_ONLY = NO\nUSER_ONLY = YES\nDEFAULTSERVICES =
>> gns", and doesn't look at all malformed to me. Got any hints on
>> how to fix this?
> 
> See (1).  This is not an issue with the config-file per-se.
> 
>> I'm soooo close to getting this freakin' awesome thing rolling! 
>> Keep up the great work!
> 
> Well, let's hope that's true. Please remember that this is still
> at best beta-quality and we still have a decent number of known
> bugs, features and documentation to finish...
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 
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