MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. file: /var/trac/.htpasswd, line: 1 'manas:Oyw8Ian6SOqMU\n'

[malayamanas@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /admin/accounts/users, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'cat_id': u'accounts', 'panel_id': u'users', 'path_info': None}

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121911 CentOS/3.0.5-1.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.5

System Information

Trac	0.11.4
Python	2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:10:13) [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)]
setuptools	0.6c5
SQLite	3.3.6
pysqlite	1.1.7
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_python	3.2.8
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 435, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 205, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 113, in process_request
    path_info)
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/admin.py", line 117, in render_admin_panel
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/admin.py", line 233, in _do_users
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/api.py", line 108, in get_users
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/svnserve.py", line 52, in get_users
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/svnserve.py", line 43, in _config
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/config.py", line 46, in __init__
    self.parse_if_needed()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/config.py", line 212, in parse_if_needed
    self.parser.read(self.filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /var/trac/.htpasswd, line: 1
'manas:Oyw8Ian6SOqMU\n'

[Emmanuel Blot]

It really looks like an InstallationIssue: you're using a .htpasswd file instead of a .ini file…

Anyway, it's related to the ​th:AccountManagerPlugin, not to Trac.