settings.json invalid?
Hi,
Updated to the latest Node-Red (embedded in SignalK).
Do not think that this is related but mention it anyway.
Upon restart I can see in syslog that the startup cannot read settings.json:
Oct 29 08:11:05 dronten systemd[1]: Stopped signalk.service.
Oct 29 08:11:05 dronten systemd[1]: Started signalk.service.
Oct 29 08:11:07 dronten signalk-server[1878]: Error reading settings file /home/tore/.signalk/settings.json, using empty settings
Oct 29 08:11:08 dronten signalk-server[1878]: signalk-notification-player:Error: please install festival package
Oct 29 08:11:08 dronten signalk-server[1878]: signalk-server running at 0.0.0.0:[object Object]
Oct 29 08:11:08 dronten signalk-server[1878]: 29 Oct 08:11:08 - [info]
Oct 29 08:11:08 dronten signalk-server[1878]: Welcome to Node-RED
No users, no connections no https.....
Analyzing the settings.json I found this at the end...
"courseApi": {
"apiOnly": false
}
},
"courseApi": {
"apiOnly": false
}
The ending bracket before the "extra courseApi entry is the normal end of the file...
See screenshot from Notepad++
Removing those extra lines fixed the problem and now operating normal.
For sure I have not edited the settings.json to create this, but somehow it has been tanpered with.
Have I been hacked 🙂
Or does anyone have any other idea?
4 Replies
Could you try to paste your entire settings.json file here? The snipped you posted does look suspicious.
Here is the entire file...
>... (13 lines left)
It's incomplete. The most important part is missing.
Nevermind. Discord is terrible apparently.
Yeay, Just removing this last bit:
That should do the trick
(Don't forget that comma)
Thanks, that is exactly what I did, I'm just curious since I have a hard time beleiveing I by mistake edited a file which I did not really know what and where it was until this happened.
So fishing for similar experiences and knowledge about what happened, not really for a fix.