Hello! Ive got an issue when reinstalling Discourse. Here’s the error: ( ): control characters are not allowed at line 1 column 1 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files. i used yamllint too check the config. here’s the result. [image]

[image] jo-andre: ( ): control characters are not allowed at line 1 column 1 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files. What is on line 1 ? If it is an empty line, remove that line and try again

[image] IAmGav: What is on line 1 ? It was nothing!.. And by that i mean whitespace… Of course i read this now. YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT! not used to whitespace being a problem in coding. Thank you very much! and sorry for bothering you :heart:

[image] jo-andre: sorry for bothering you it is no bother at all.

Oh but now probably. That was not the case after all.. :sweat_smile: there was a whitespace on line 1.. but i removed it. Saved and ./launcher rebuild app. but i still getting the same error.

PM me the conf file without the passwords I’ll check it and send it back

i just PM you, but i can’t see our dialog anywhere. did it go through?

Yes i did. did you correct any mistakes?

yes i did. put the password back in and rebuild app

alright. got a new error did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 34 column 3 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Containers/*.yml LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8

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IAmGav (Gavin Perch) January 25, 2022, 8:51pm 13

i found the problem

the smtp password should not contain the character "

i removed the password and it build.

advised to reset the password and rebuild app again

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Containers/*.yml LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8

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