Solved Socket-IO Redis error

[boomzilla]

New problem! Again, getting everything up to v1.17.0. We run clustered, so now we need redis (we run a postgresql DB for a DB). For background, in production we have docker images and blah blah blah...I've not been able to get that environment duplicated, so I'm just running stuff outside of docker.

In my dev VM I'm running Kubuntu 18.04. The "setting up redis" documentation was light on details like specific versions so I just installed the redis from my repo:

redis/bionic-updates,bionic-updates,bionic-security,bionic-security,now 5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.2

Stuff mostly seems to work. However, when we're up and running if I click on an unread topic link this happens:

2021-05-12T23:25:07.092Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:topic.getFields
2021-05-12T23:25:07.092Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges:isAllowedTo
2021-05-12T23:25:07.093Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges:isAllowedTo
2021-05-12T23:25:07.093Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges:isAllowedTo
2021-05-12T23:25:07.093Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:category.getFields
2021-05-12T23:25:07.093Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges.topics.filter
2021-05-12T23:25:07.094Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:topic.getFields
2021-05-12T23:25:07.096Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.getSettings
2021-05-12T23:25:07.096Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.notificationTypes
2021-05-12T23:25:07.096Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:topics.getUnreadTids
2021-05-12T23:25:07.096Z [4567/106387] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:error.handle
2021-05-12T23:25:07.097Z [4567/106387] - error: /wtf/api/topic/13289/song-of-the-day/4062
TypeError: socket.client.writeToEngine is not a function
    at /home/boomzilla/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io-redis/node_modules/socket.io-adapter/dist/index.js:110:27
    at RedisAdapter.apply (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io-redis/node_modules/socket.io-adapter/dist/index.js:194:25)
    at RedisAdapter.broadcast (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io-redis/node_modules/socket.io-adapter/dist/index.js:109:14)
    at RedisAdapter.broadcast (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io-redis/dist/index.js:321:15)
    at BroadcastOperator.emit (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/dist/broadcast-operator.js:109:22)
    at Topics.pushUnreadCount (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/src/topics/unread.js:254:44)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 1)
    at async markAsRead (/home/boomzilla/nodebb/src/controllers/topics.js:161:3)

Any idea what might be going on?

EDIT: If I refresh or hit enter from the address bar the page loads as expected.

[baris]

Since you are running locally can you try with these dependencies.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

This forum is running latest master which is 1.17.1

[baris]

Can you check the versions of the dependencies?

npm ls socket.io
npm ls socket.io-redis
npm ls socket.io-client

[boomzilla]

@baris

[email protected] /home/boomzilla/nodebb
└── socket.io@4.0.1
└── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

[boomzilla]

I've been working through my custom plugins. I think I have all the breaking changes fixed but am still having this issue. So I deactivated them. Here's what I'm running now:

nodebb-plugin-composer-default
Installed 6.5.27 | Latest 6.5.27

nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
Installed 4.2.0 | Latest 4.2.0

nodebb-plugin-desktop-notifications
Installed 0.3.3 | Latest 0.3.3

nodebb-plugin-emoji
Installed 3.5.3 | Latest 3.5.3

nodebb-plugin-emoji-one
Installed 2.0.5 | Latest 2.0.5

nodebb-plugin-google-analytics
Installed 0.5.11 | Latest 0.6.0

nodebb-plugin-gravatar
Installed 2.3.0 | Latest 2.3.0

nodebb-plugin-iframely
Installed 0.7.14 | Latest 0.7.14

nodebb-plugin-imagemagick
Installed 2.1.1 | Latest 2.1.1

nodebb-plugin-markdown
Installed 8.12.7 | Latest 8.12.7

nodebb-plugin-mentions
Installed 2.13.9 | Latest 2.13.9

nodebb-plugin-shortcuts
Installed 1.1.2 | Latest 1.1.2

nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone
Installed 0.7.9 | Latest 0.7.9

nodebb-plugin-sso-facebook
Installed 3.6.3 | Latest 3.6.3

nodebb-plugin-sso-github
Installed 2.3.1 | Latest 2.3.1

nodebb-plugin-sso-google
Installed 2.5.4 | Latest 2.5.4

nodebb-plugin-sso-twitter
Installed 2.5.11 | Latest 2.5.11

nodebb-rewards-essentials
Installed 0.1.4 | Latest 0.1.4

nodebb-theme-persona
Installed 11.0.17 | Latest 11.0.17

nodebb-widget-essentials
Installed 5.0.3 | Latest 5.0.3

[baris]

Since you are running locally can you try with these dependencies.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

This forum is running latest master which is 1.17.1

[boomzilla]

@baris I'm really trying to stick to actual releases (looking at github it doesn't look like 1.17.1 has been officially blessed yet). However, staying on v1.17.0 and bumping the socket.io and socket.io-client versions seems to have done the trick!