Ipfs daemon cannot be launched successfully

Hi !
I’m encountering some issues when launching “ipfs daemon” on ubuntu virtual machine. the error message displayed by ubuntu CLI can be found on the following png file :

It’s choking on your swarm key because it’s expecting either bin, base16, or base64

Here’s some hints which is the line blowing up on ya…

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Thanx! I’m a newbie, so I can’t really say that I understand very well your post. But I effectively realized, a few moments after I posted my message, that the error was somewhat linked to the swarm.key file.

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