NodeBB general flakiness, suspected broken install?

[girish]

@wu-lee It seems the assets were not build properly. If you go into the NodeBB's admin panel, there is a button on the top right to Rebuild assets & Restart. Can you try clicking that button and see if it helps?

Otherwise, usually these things happens if you install plugins. What plugins do you have installed? A good start will be to disable all the ones you installed and try to enable them one by one to find the offending plugin.

[wu-lee]

@girish I've tried the rebuild and restart several times. It did rectify some other problems we were having, but these seem to be persistent.

But I'll try it again, just in case. I'll list the plugins after it starts again.

[wu-lee]

No, that still doesn't resolve the problems. The console shows these errors again on first visit, following erasing the browser information for the forum domain:

This page uses the non standard property “zoom”. Consider using calc() in the relevant property values, or using “transform” along with “transform-origin: 0 0”. [...]
Uncaught TypeError: t is not a function
    <anonymous> serializer.js:17
    <anonymous> serializer.js:162
serializer.js:17:25
Loading failed for the <script> with source “[...]/assets/src/modules/bootbox.js?v=1mjvdi86tsu”. [...]:1:1
Uncaught Error: Script error for "bootbox", needed by: forum/category/tools
https://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror
    makeError require.js:168
    onScriptError require.js:1738
require.js:168:16
ServiceWorker registration failed:  DOMException: The operation is insecure. app.js:793:13
Loading failed for the <script> with source “[...]/assets/src/modules/timeago/jquery.timeago.js?v=1mjvdi86tsu”. forum.code-operative.co.uk:1:1
Uncaught Error: Script error for "timeago/jquery.timeago"
https://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror
    makeError require.js:168
    onScriptError require.js:1738
require.js:168:16

[wu-lee]

The installed plugins:

# ./nodebb plugins
Active plugins:
        * nodebb-plugin-code-button (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-composer-default (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-dbsearch (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-discord-bot (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-discord-notification (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-emoji (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-emoji-android (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-markdown (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-mentions (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-poll (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-poll2 (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-private-forum (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default (installed, disabled)
        * nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone (installed, disabled)
        * nodebb-rewards-essentials (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-theme-lavender (installed, enabled)
        * nodebb-theme-persona (installed, disabled)
        * nodebb-theme-slick (installed, disabled)
        * nodebb-theme-vanilla (installed, disabled)
        * nodebb-widget-essentials (installed, enabled)

[wu-lee]

I'm trying to disable plugins and will report back.

Should the NodeBB Cloudron package version (v1.17.0-1) match that reported by NodeBB itself (v1.16.0)?

[girish]

@wu-lee said in NodeBB general flakiness, suspected broken install?:

Should the NodeBB Cloudron package version (v1.17.0-1) match that reported by NodeBB itself (v1.16.0)?

They don't need to match. The package version is completely separate from NodeBB version.

[girish]

@wu-lee BTW, one thing you can do is to simply clone the app from latest backup. And then play around in the cloned instance (i.e disable all plugins and then test one by one).

[girish]

@wu-lee I found this thread https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15211/errors-when-updating-from-latest-1-15-to-1-16 which has same error as yours. It seems to come from that poll2 plugin.

[wu-lee]

After disabling all the plugins and rebuilding, there is just this error:

Failed to load ‘https://forum.code-operative.co.uk/assets/vendor/fontawesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0’. A ServiceWorker intercepted the request and encountered an unexpected error.

Re-enabling these plug-ins:

• nodebb-plugin-markdown
• nodebb-plugin-mentions

Then I see 404s on /plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown/styles/railscasts.css. Seems to be a bug in the markdown plugin, I filed a bug here:

I also get more occasional .ttf//.woff errors as above. And lots of [benchmark] warnings in the server logs, I think these can be ignored.

Renabling these seem to go without faults:

• nodebb-plugin-composer-default
• nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
• nodebb-widget-essentials

However, nodebb-plugin-private-forum introduces errors, when visiting anonymously.

https://github.com/LM1LC3N7/nodebb-plugin-private-forum/issues/2

Finally, installing nodebb-plugin-poll doesn't (so far) seem to create any errors....

Will keep an eye on things. There were some other plug-ins (code-button, emoji-related) which I didn't consider important enough to re-enable.

[wu-lee]

Rereading, could be worth noting for other readers of this thread: the poll2 plug-in (which seems to be marked as possibly not working with this version of NodeBB) is not the same as the poll plug-in (which seems to be marked as working)/ I'm not sure why I had both installed.