### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/2 "2022-01-25T19:38:38Z")
> [@jo-andre](#):
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> ```plaintext
> (): 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
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### Author:  [@jo-andre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jo-andre)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/3 "2022-01-25T19:43:35Z")
> [@IAmGav](#):
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> 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 ❤
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/4 "2022-01-25T19:45:13Z")
> [@jo-andre](#):
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> sorry for bothering you
it is no bother at all.
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### Author:  [@jo-andre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jo-andre)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/5 "2022-01-25T19:45:45Z")
Oh but now probably. That was not the case after all.. 😅
there was a whitespace on line 1.. but i removed it. Saved and ./launcher rebuild app. but i still getting the same error.
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/6 "2022-01-25T19:48:02Z")
PM me the conf file without the passwords
I’ll check it and send it back
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### Author:  [@jo-andre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jo-andre)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/7 "2022-01-25T19:54:47Z")
i just PM you, but i can’t see our dialog anywhere. did it go through?
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/8 "2022-01-25T20:00:18Z")
did you get my reply ?
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### Author:  [@jo-andre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jo-andre)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/9 "2022-01-25T20:01:20Z")
Yes i did. did you correct any mistakes?
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/10 "2022-01-25T20:02:02Z")
yes i did.
put the password back in and rebuild app
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### Author:  [@jo-andre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jo-andre)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/11 "2022-01-25T20:07:27Z")
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`
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/12 "2022-01-25T20:39:37Z")
The easiest thing is probably to delete your `app.yml` and run `discourse-setup` again. It could literally be a single extra or missing space most anywhere. Or tab instead of some spaces. Maybe you can figure it out with `yamlint`, or maybe you’ll always mess something up when you copy to or from it.
If what you did to break it was add plugins, see that next time you copy/paste the existing `git clone` line and edit it. That way you can’t mess up the spacing.
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/13 "2022-01-25T20:51:04Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/14 "2022-01-25T21:34:33Z")
> [@IAmGav](#):
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> the smtp password should not contain the character `"`
Oh! Good one. Yeah, I think you might have been able to backslash it, but my solution would have been zero help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/containers-yml-lc-all-en-us-utf-8/215975/15 "2022-02-24T21:34:43Z")
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