I followed the update instructions using git from the official support page to update my NodeBB by doing git fetch, and then resetting to the master branch and so on...

Upon running the upgrade script ./nodebb upgrade , Tons of this happened all with success messages, then I finally got:

2019-10-20T07:24:49.049Z [4567/19137] - error: [build] Encountered error during build stepEACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended' {"errno":-13,"code":"EACCES","syscall":"rmdir","path":"/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended","stack":"Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended'"}
Error occurred during upgrade: Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended'
2019-10-20T07:24:49.053Z [4567/19137] - error: uncaughtException: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended'
Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended' {"error":{"errno":-13,"code":"EACCES","syscall":"rmdir","path":"/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended"},"stack":"Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/var/www/nodebb/myforums/build/public/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended'","exception":true,"date":"Sun Oct 20 2019 07:24:49 GMT+0000 (UTC)","process":{"pid":19137,"uid":1000,"gid":1000,"cwd":"/var/www/nodebb/myforums","execPath":"/home/gonia119/.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.2/bin/node","version":"v8.16.2","argv":["/home/gonia119/.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.2/bin/node","/var/www/nodebb/myforums/nodebb","upgrade"],"memoryUsage":{"rss":169865216,"heapTotal":124071936,"heapUsed":90725128,"external":19303888}},"os":{"loadavg":[1.15283203125,0.48291015625,0.27099609375],"uptime":5773},"trace":[]}
2019-10-20T07:24:49.054Z [4567/19137] - error: [build]          requirejs modules  build failed
2019-10-20T07:24:49.058Z [4567/19137] - error: [build]                  templates  build failed
2019-10-20T07:24:49.060Z [4567/19137] - error: [build]                  languages  build failed
2019-10-20T07:24:54.127Z [4567/19137] - error: [build]                     sounds  build failed

Now, when I do sudo ./nodebb upgrade I get:

admin@forums:/var/www/nodebb/myforums$ sudo ./nodebb upgrade
/var/www/nodebb/myforums/src/cli/package-install.js:23
        var packageContents = { ...oldPackageContents, ...defaultPackageContents, dependencies: { ...oldPackageContents.dependencies, ...defaultPackageContents.dependencies } };
                                ^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/nodebb/myforums/src/cli/index.js:8:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

I cannot get past this issue....

ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION:

Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Node.js 8.16.2
Current NodeBB: Not sure because I cannot access my admin panel anymore... How can I get this info from the binary? I try ./nodebb version doesn't work...

Trying to upgrade to: Latest NodeBB stable.

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