Arm shell $* problem
This line
exec python -W ignore::DeprecationWarning "${arm_base}starter.py" $* should change to exec python -W ignore::DeprecationWarning "${arm_base}starter.py" "$@"
This the common pitfall with shell, the former syntax doesn't expand arguments properly, and the latter one does.
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