I just upgraded to the current git version of nodebb after I noticed that upgrading to 0.4.3. removed the Reply and New Topic buttons (no idea why that happened). The upgrade fixed that, but now when I try to create a new topic I just get the message "Category doesn't exist" when I click Submit (reply works though).
I'm running nodebb on Windows using mongodb. I had problems with categories before but managed to fix it manually, see https://community.nodebb.org/topic/1434/category-disappeared

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.

Yay, that fixed it.

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.

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?

That should prove helpful, thanks!

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.

But btw /debug/cid/1 just gives me a 404. Can I enable some kind of debug mode somewhere? Didn't find anything about it.

Did it! Every category has a correpsonding _key:categories:cid document, that just has two values, which both are just it's id. Anyway, the categories:cid for the first category was missing, for whatever reason. Manually added that and there it is.

Hi!

I just 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. After the update the first category (id 1) disappeared. It's still around somehow, the category is fully working if I manually enter the link to it or click a link in the user post lists, but it just disappeared on the start page and in the category configuration panels - just doesn't show up, neither in the Active nor in the Disabled list.