verify sign error: ValueError: Extra data: line 3140 column 2 - line 3140 column 103

[shirishag75]

Step 1: Please describe your environment

• ZeroNet version: 0.6.1 r2324
• Operating system: Debian buster
• Web browser: 52.6.0
• Tor status: always
• Opened port: yes
• Special configuration: in /etc/tor

  ControlPort 9051
  CookieAuthentication 1

From https://zeronet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/#how-to-make-zeronet-work-with-tor-under-linux

Step 2: Describe the problem:

Got the following output while running zeronet

[11:52:49] Site:1PLAYg..Xvfp content.json: verify sign error: ValueError: Extra data: line 3140 column 2 - line 3140 column 103 (char 108699 - 108800) in ContentManager.py line 821 > init.py line 291 > init.py line 339 > decoder.py line 367

Steps to reproduce:

Observed Results:

The same as above.

Expected Results:

The error should not be there.

If such an error does happen, at least give some hint as to where I should look next to resolve it.

[HelloZeroNet]

Looks like the site has invalid content.json, the error is at site's content.json file line 3140, try to update it manually using ZeroHello.