ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/svn/usuarios/custodio.policy [line 111]: '[]\n'

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How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on , Trac issued an internal error.

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User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.27 Safari/532.0

System Information

Trac	0.11.2.1
Python	2.4.3 (#1, May 24 2008, 13:47:28) [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)]
setuptools	0.6c8
SQLite	3.3.6
pysqlite	1.1.7
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_python	3.2.8
Subversion	1.4.2 (r22196)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 432, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 174, in dispatch
    chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 295, in _pre_process_request
    chosen_handler = filter_.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 86, in pre_process_request
    self.get_repository(req.authname).sync()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 157, in get_repository
    repos = self._connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, authname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 289, in get_repository
    authname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_authz.py", line 47, in SubversionAuthorizer
    return RealSubversionAuthorizer(repos, authname, module_name, authz_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.2.1-py2.4.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_authz.py", line 88, in __init__
    self.conf_authz.read(cfg_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 490, in _read
    raise e
ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/svn/usuarios/custodio.policy
	[line 111]: '[]\n'

[Remy Blank]

Your authz policy seems to have an error at line 111. Is it allowed to have an empty section ([])? Shouldn't that be [/]?

So this is most likely an InstallationIssue. If an empty section is actually valid, then it's probably a duplicate of #8289. The SVNBook seems to indicate that it's not valid.