'collectstatic' command fails when WhiteNoise is enabled

Question

I\'m trying to serve static files through WhiteNoise as per Heroku\'s recommendation. When I run collectstatic in my development environment, this happens:

Answer 1

Much like everyone else, I had a unique fix to this problem... turns out I had a url() in my styles.css file with bad syntax.

Once I changed:

background-image: url( '../images/futura_front_blank_medium.jpg' );

to

background-image: url('../images/futura_front_blank_medium.jpg');

(notice the subtle difference -- I removed the spaces on either side of the string)

then python manage.py collectstatic worked fine and I didn't get that error.