Need help upgrading a manual instance

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Hey guys,

We have a working 0.58.2 version (n 4.5) and are looking to go towards 0.63.0, after seeing Aaron’s answer here (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48917334/updating-a-manually-installed-rocket-chat-instance) we went ahead and updated node to 4.8.4, then 8.9.3 (as recommended), to finally deploy the 0.63.0 code & npm install/reinstall the forever services.

Once that’s done, we’re getting:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:599:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:676:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:608:3

In the logs, on startup. Anyone experienced this? Any clues to point us in the right direction?

Any help highly appreciated.

2

Sounds like you have an incompatible Node version running, as the import item it is talking about is a newer Node/JavaScript feature. Make sure the environment where your Rocket.Chat Server is running in is actually the updated Node version.

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Sorry for the late reply, our time to work on this is unfortunately very limited.

So I’ve made some progress, but still getting the same error. nodejs was updated using:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
apt-get install nodejs
n 8.11.1

From this,
nodejs -v && node -v
reports 8.11.1 on both & now npm install runs but ends with

npm WARN lifecycle Rocket.Chat@0.62.0~postinstall: cannot run in wd %s %s (wd=%s) Rocket.Chat@0.62.0 cd packages/rocketchat-katex && npm i /var/www/Rocket.Chat

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.3 (node_modules/fsevents):

npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

That being said, I also tried both
npm install --unsafe-perm
and just
npm install

Running with unsafe perm doesn’t result in the first warning, and both unsafe and regular result in the following after setting up the forever services:

error: Script restart attempt #5
/var/www/Rocket.Chat/server/main.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import '/imports/startup/server';
                                                              ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:616:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:609:3
error: Forever detected script exited with code: 1

Any ideas?

4

Did you manage to solve? Still looks like despite being updated it wasn’t using that updated node.js

Another thing to try is make sure you delete the node_modules folder and rerun npm install

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Hey Aaron,

I did not, we’re still running that old version. Thanks for the info! I’ll try over the weekend & come back with anything else that pops up.

Cheers,
Simon