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+[0:15] brief:cdist% ./bin/cdist config -c ~/p/cdist-nutzung -v ikq04.ethz.ch
+INFO: ikq04.ethz.ch: Running global explorers
+INFO: Running initial manifest /home/users/nico/p/cdist-nutzung/conf/manifest
+INFO: ikq04.ethz.ch: Running object manifests and type explorers
+/var/lib/cdist/conf/type/__file/explorer/.exists.swp: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/exec/remote.py", line 147, in run_script
+    return subprocess.check_output(command).decode()
+  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 518, in check_output
+    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
+subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ssh', '-o', 'User=root', '-q', 'ikq04.ethz.ch', '__explorer=/var/lib/cdist/conf/explorer', '__object_fq=__file/etc/cdist-configured/.cdist', '__target_host=ikq04.ethz.ch', '__object_id=etc/cdist-configured', '__type_explorer=/var/lib/cdist/conf/type/__file/explorer', '__object=/var/lib/cdist/object/__file/etc/cdist-configured/.cdist', '/bin/sh', '-e', '/var/lib/cdist/conf/type/__file/explorer/.exists.swp']' returned non-zero exit status 2
+
+During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
+
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "./bin/cdist", line 161, in <module>
+    commandline()
+  File "./bin/cdist", line 103, in commandline
+    args.func(args)
+  File "./bin/cdist", line 106, in config
+    configinstall(args, mode=cdist.config.Config)
+  File "./bin/cdist", line 133, in configinstall
+    c.deploy_and_cleanup()
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/config_install.py", line 71, in deploy_and_cleanup
+    self.deploy_to()
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/config_install.py", line 65, in deploy_to
+    self.stage_prepare()
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/config_install.py", line 94, in stage_prepare
+    self.object_prepare(cdist_object)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/config_install.py", line 122, in object_prepare
+    self.run_type_explorers(cdist_object)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/config_install.py", line 115, in run_type_explorers
+    output = self.explorer.run_type_explorer(explorer, cdist_object)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/core/explorer.py", line 135, in run_type_explorer
+    return self.remote.run_script(script, env=env, return_output=True)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/exec/remote.py", line 151, in run_script
+    script_content = self.run(["cat", script], return_output=True)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/exec/remote.py", line 97, in run
+    return self.run_command(cmd, env=env, return_output=return_output)
+  File "/home/users/nico/oeffentlich/rechner/projekte/cdist/lib/cdist/exec/remote.py", line 117, in run_command
+    return subprocess.check_output(command).decode()
+UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 17: invalid start byte
+