I go with the suggestion of updating the Font Awesome to version 5 in the future release. Because fontawesome version 5 has a larger number of icons.

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@paopevil I always run nodebb from sudo.

EDIT: I fixed the error by replacing nodebb files with new ones and running the ./nodebb upgrade command.