nemo@control:/etc/swift$ sudo swift-ring-builder object.builder create 18 3 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/swift-ring-builder", line 28, in <module>
    from swift.common.ring import RingBuilder
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/ring/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ring import RingData, Ring
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/ring/ring.py", line 21, in <module>
    from swift.common.utils import hash_path, validate_configuration
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/utils.py", line 69, in <module>
    if hash_conf.read('/etc/swift/swift.conf'):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 546, in _read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/swift/swift.conf
	[line  3]: ' 03c9f48da2229770.\n'
nemo@control:/etc/swift$ cat /etc/swift/swift.conf
[swift-hash]
# random unique string that can never change (DO NOT LOSE). I'm using
 03c9f48da2229770.
# od -t x8 -N 8 -A n < /dev/random
# The above command can be used to generate random a string.
swift_hash_path_suffix = 03c9f48da2229770