[Solved] Register/Login links do not disappear when logged in

[RobD]

Hi again!

Next one, same disclaimer: I upgraded a nodebb instance from a version I downloaded from git at the first of March to version 0.4.2. It's running on Windows using Mongo.
When I log in to the forum, I'm not forwarded to a proper webpage. Instead it just says "[[success:authentication-successful]]". When I manually reload the forum I'm logged in though. But the Register and Login links at the top-right stay there, when I click them they take me to the user configuration.

[julian]

Hey @RobD, welcome to NodeBB

What do you see in the web inspector when you attempt to log in? It sounds like maybe the web socket server is not running properly.

[RobD]

Found out it happens only when I run it as a service (using the windows-service node package), although that worked fine with the earlier version of nodebb I used before. When I run it as a service I get "Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined " in the browser. Could that be related to websockets?

[julian]

@RobD When you run it as a service, please take a look at /logs/output.log to see if any errors show up.

[RobD]

windows-service needs a little startup code ala:

var logStream = fs.createWriteStream(process.argv[1] + ".log");
service.run(logStream, function() {
    service.stop(0);
});

The resulting app.log file contains no errors, just the usual startup infos. The logs subdir stays empty.

[Schamper]

I am experiencing this on my development instance as well. I thought it must be because of some other issue so I never investigated, but apparently I'm not alone I'm running it with node app.js though.

[baris]

Sounds like a mongo only issue, I will take a look today.

[julian]

Hey guys, run this for me, let's see if it helps --

$ npm install nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest
$ npm install nodebb-theme-lavender@latest

Vanilla 0.0.19-53 and Lavender 0.0.25-16 should be installed.

[shinyidol]

Same thing happened to me when upgrading to 0.4.3 today. Getting latest on the theme fixed it.

[RobD]

Yay, that fixed it.

[RobD]

Hmmm, or maybe not really. The buttons on the top-right now look correct but don't do anything. Also still getting the "require not defined" error. But I'm now on 0.43. In 0.42 it kind of worked correctly once after updating the themes after an unusually long delay. Maybe that happened randomly, but I can go down to 0.42 again and recheck if it helps.

[Scuzz]

I've just updated and we have the login and register buttons even when we have logged in. I'm not sure if this is a theme issue with sea wolf or if it's a nodebb issue. SeaWolf is based off Vanilla so if any chnages happen in the vanilla theme then they should propagate over to my theme.

[julian]

There were some changes re: the header buttons recently , though I am unfamiliar with the exact change. @baris?

Also make sure your themes are up-to-date... 0.0.19-53 and 0.0.25-16, respectively

[Scuzz]

@julian apparently the update command for npm didnt actually update it...
All working now.

[julian]

@Scuzz Beats me as to why. npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla installs 0.0.19-35 instead of -53. Not sure if that is still the case, but I updated the package.json file in the v0.4.x branch which might resolve this.

[Dazzuh]

@julian said:

@Scuzz Beats me as to why. npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla installs 0.0.19-35 instead of -53. Not sure if that is still the case, but I updated the package.json file in the v0.4.x branch which might resolve this.

npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla still installs 0.0.19-35, using npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@0.0.19-53 installed the correct one for me

[baris]

@julian yeah I changed it so that the buttons are shown/hidden in the templates on render instead of after the page renders with a socket call, makes it much faster on mobile.

[Scuzz]

The login / Register is now fixed but now the reply and create thread buttons do not appear.

[julian]

@Scuzz on 0.4.3 or latest master?

If former: your themes are too new
If latter: your themes are too old.

[a_5mith]

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