NodeBB Crashed after upgrade

PitaJ

What version for you upgrade from? It looks like npm is finding a shrinkwrap file which is super old. You should delete that and try again.

julian

Agreed, you should probably delete npm-shrinkwrap.json and package-lock.json and run ./nodebb upgrade again

Aaron Murray

OK! I'll do that in a min. First, I wanted to add the following output:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb start
Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
child_process.js:403
throw new TypeError('"cwd" must be a string');
^

TypeError: "cwd" must be a string
at normalizeSpawnArguments (child_process.js:403:11)
at Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:496:38)
at Function.module.exports.daemon (/home/yilm/nodebb/node_modules/daemon/index.js:50:31)
at module.exports (/home/yilm/nodebb/node_modules/daemon/index.js:25:20)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/loader.js:93:19)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Aaron Murray

OK, I ran ./nodebb upgrade after deleting the above mentioned files. No dice.

Here's the output:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb upgrade
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Jade has been renamed to pug, please install the latest version of pug instead of jade
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: connect 2.x series is deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this package has been reintegrated into npm and is now out of date with respect to npm
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] npm has the following vulnerability: 1 high. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=npm&version=1.4.29 - Run npm i npm@latest -g to upgrade your npm version, and then npm audit to get more info.
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for nodebb-widget-essentials@~0.0.21
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'nodebb'
npm ERR! notarget

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/yilm/.npm/_logs/2018-07-11T17_50_42_742Z-debug.log
[..................] / rollbackFailedOptional: verb npm-sessio
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] license should be a valid SPDX license expression

[email protected]
[email protected]
removed 550 packages and updated 2 packages in 8.355s
module.js:549
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'nconf'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/app.js:23:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

NodeBB Dependencies up-to-date!

Now, I'm getting a different error when I run ./nodebb start:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb start
Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
module.js:549
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'nconf'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/loader.js:3:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Because it is a fresh install to begin with (nothing to loose), how would I remove nodebb from my server so I can try a fresh reinstall and then upgrade again? Or better yet, reinstall the latest instead so as to skip the upgrade.

I followed the Ubuntu install (https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/) - how do I just reinstall the latest version?

I am assuming I need to change 1.9.x to 1.10.x in the following command:

git clone -b v1.9.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

Am I right?

Dravere

There are many things in this log I find kind of strange.

What NPM version have you installed? According to that Node Security output 1.4.29? That would be way outdated. And thus probably also running a way outdated NodeJS?

Are you sure you followed that documentation? Because it seems you have NodeBB 0.4.3 on your system? npm WARN [email protected]

To reinstall from start by losing all your data, just remove the NodeBB directory, drop the database and start fresh. But I highly recommend to first make sure that you run at least NodeJS 6.x and an up-to-date NPM.

Aaron Murray

@dravere Yes. Followed instructions here: https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ npm -v
5.6.0
yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ nodejs -v
v8.11.3

How do I drop the DB? I am familiar with MySQL, but not Mongo.

PitaJ

What version of NodeBB were you on? What version did you upgrade to?

Aaron Murray

@pitaj It was 1.9.something and upgraded to 1.10.something.

Aaron Murray

OK. I removed nodebb foler, but didn't drop the db.

Ran:

yilm@yilm:~/$ git clone -b v1.10.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb
yilm@yilm:~$ ./nodebb setup

No errors. Everything is now up and running.

Dravere

Good to hear. Just in case you need it in the future.

MongoDB has very good documentation and you can find it here: https://docs.mongodb.com/

Dropping the database would be described here: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/db.dropDatabase/index.html

Thus probably would be something along the line of:

use nodebb
db.dropDatabase()