1.4.1 blank screen

[rev138]

Description

I am experiencing the problem described in #10983 using 1.4.1

• Browser: Firefox 68
• OS: Fedora
• URL: https://matrix.gibberfish.org/

[turt2live]

matrix.gibberfish.org reports using 1.3.5, not 1.4.1 - are you sure this is with 1.4.1?

[rev138]

Yes. I switched back because it's broken.

[turt2live]

Have you self-compiled Riot or are you using a downloaded release? The error you're getting should only be present if the thing was compiled itself without the required attention (this release is a bit weird).

[rev138]

Self compiled. Did I miss something?

[turt2live]

Try:

1. Delete node_modules of all 3 layers.
2. yarn cache clean
3. The regular compilation process.

[rev138]

Ok, I did this:

rm -rf node_modules/*
yarn install

This complained it couldn't find "rimraf", so:

npm i rimraf
yarn install
yarn dist

This created dist/riot-v1.4.1-dirty.tar.gz, which when unpacked still gives a blank screen.

[turt2live]

Is the error fixed? The error in your original post is a dependency error and so should be fixed using the instructions.

Using npm probably didn't help - try yarn add rimraf instead.

[turt2live]

Also the cache clean is important.

[rev138]

Sorry, yes. I did the clean. Using npm got me past the rimraf error. I'm not sure what to do next.
Why was that tarball "dirty"?

[turt2live]

Repeat the steps, but use the yarn command I mentioned instead of the npm command.

That could be one of the reasons the tarball is dirty.

We also publish signed tarballs at https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/releases for every release, if you want to avoid compiling yourself.

[rev138]

The official tarball worked. I'll just stick to those in the future. Thanks!