NodeBB upgrades became worse since 0.7

[pichalite]

Every time I do an upgrade it does not go well. There is always some kind of error even though I am following the upgrade process from the docs.

I just tried upgrading from v0.7.1 to v0.7.2. The first thing I got was an npm error when I ran the ./nodebb upgrade script. Tried running it again, it worked this time don't know why and how. Tried starting NodeBB with ./nodebb start. It wouldn't start with an uglify.js module error. I install uglify.js, now I get a 503 error.

[julian]

@pichalite Sorry to hear that Can you paste the error here? To my knowledge, NodeBB does not send 503 errors...

[pichalite]

@julian It was actually 500 not 503.

 - error:  Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/home/pichalite/nodebb/public/templates"
    at EventEmitter.render (/home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:579:17)
    at ServerResponse.render (/home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:961:7)
    at ServerResponse.res.render (/home/pichalite/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:337:10)
    at /home/pichalite/nodebb/src/routes/index.js:223:9
    at /home/pichalite/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:192:12
    at /home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:589:17
    at done (/home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:126:15)
    at /home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:16
    at /home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:586:21
    at EventEmitter.render (/home/pichalite/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:581:14)
Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/home/pichalite/nodebb/public/templates"

I reset the theme to vanilla too after I got this error to eliminate the possibility of custom theme error.

[pichalite]

@pichalite the composer has a bug. it does not scroll when I am typing a long message, the page scrolls instead. The composer starts scrolling after it reaches the end of the page.

[julian]

@pichalite Did you update your theme to specify the proper base theme? https://community.nodebb.org/topic/6098/on-changing-the-default-theme-to-persona

[pichalite]

@julian I ran ./nodebb -reset -t to eliminate the theme issue and it was reset to vanilla. still got the error.

[julian]

The error suggests the themes could not compile for whatever reason. Were there any errors on startup?

[pichalite]

@julian no errors during startup

[julian]

Plugins reset as well? If this were a core issue, we'd be seeing problems on our builds as well.

Move out your node_modules/ folder and run npm i again.

[pichalite]

@julian deleted the complete NodeBB folder and set it up. got it working.

Don't have too many plugins installed. In addition to the default ones I have sso plugins for Facebook, google and twitter and the rss plugin that's it.

[julian]

@pichalite Glad it's working again Seems it was npm's failing to install dependencies correctly?

[Scuzz]

We have found the upgrade process to fail nearly every time we have ran it.
I usually find a clean install with a DB backup to be the best process when changing versions.

[chrismccoy]

i tried upgrading using nodebb upgrade, it still shows 0.7.1, its not a git repo, so i cant do a fetch and checkout

[julian]

@chrismccoy ./nodebb upgrade does not download new code for you. You need to do that yourself

Please check out the "Upgrading NodeBB" page in the documentation

[d3athwarrior]

Even I was having trouble installing the update using the method listed in the docs.
I did a little searching and found @julian had mentioned a step of installing dependencies after the fetch, etc and prior to running ./nodebb upgrade somewhere in this forum as a reply to a previous update issue.

He had asekd to run npm i to install dependencies and that is what is working for me. I used it to update from v0.7.0.0 to v0.7.1.0 and also to v0.7.2.0.

[kps]

@julian said:

Move out your node_modules/ folder and run npm i again.

@julian
The composer is not working correctly, on scrolling the page scrolls but not the composer

[julian]

@kps Default composer on desktop, or mobile?

[kps]

@julian Desktop

Also I keep getting this warning "warn: [plugins/nodebb-theme-persona] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset -p nodebb-theme-persona"

Why should that happen ? I havent installed any other theme

[Kowlin]

@kps From what I know its basically a warning that the theme/plugin doesn't have the proper version for the current NodeBB version.

[scottalanmiller]

@pichalite said:

Every time I do an upgrade it does not go well. There is always some kind of error even though I am following the upgrade process from the docs.

Same here. Haven't had one work yet, actually. Not since 0.3 I think.