I am trying to install Discourse on Ubuntu, and while running bin/ember-cli -u, the following errors are occurring, warning Resolution field "unset-value@2.0.1" is incompatible with requested version "unset-value@^1.0.0" patch-package 8.0.0 Applying patches... @ember/test-helpers@2.9.4 ✔ babel-plugin-debug-macros@0.3.4 ✔ content-tag@1.2.2 ✔ ember-cli@5.0.0 ✔ ember-this-fallback@0.4.0 (1 deprecation-name) ✔ ember-this-fallback@0.4.0 (2 themes) ✔ virtual-dom@2.1.1 ✔ Ember CLI running on PID: 28775 I, [2024-01-09T12:16:20.169085 #28806] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list Starting CSS change watcher I, [2024-01-09T12:16:22.567391 #28806] INFO -- : listening on addr=127.0.0.1:3000 fd=24 Deprecation notice: `SiteSetting.min_trust_to_create_tag` has been deprecated. Please use `SiteSetting.create_tag_allowed_groups` instead. (removal in Discourse 3.3) At /home/aximsoft-ilamathin/discourse/lib/guardian/tag_guardian.rb:12:in `can_create_tag?` Proxying to http://127.0.0.1:3000 - building... I, [2024-01-09T12:16:24.045355 #28806] INFO -- : starting 1 supervised sidekiqs I, [2024-01-09T12:16:24.073312 #28806] INFO -- : master process ready Loading Sidekiq in process id 28929 I, [2024-01-09T12:16:24.195961 #28930] INFO -- : worker=0 ready I, [2024-01-09T12:16:24.210706 #28936] INFO -- : worker=2 ready I, [2024-01-09T12:16:24.219471 #28933] INFO -- : worker=1 ready undefined:1 {"type":"job","id":0,"error":null,"result":{"result":[{"buffer":true,"string":true},{"data":{"version":3,"names":["w","window","d","define","esc","require","_embroiderRouteBundles_","names","load"],"sources":["/.... SyntaxError: Unexpected token in JSON at position 219260 at JSON.parse ( ) at /home/aximsoft-ilamathin/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/node_modules/thread-loader/dist/WorkerPool.js:144:30 at Socket.onChunk (/home/aximsoft-ilamathin/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/node_modules/thread-loader/dist/readBuffer.js:40:9) at Socket.emit (node:events:517:28) at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:335:12) at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:308:9) at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:245:10) at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23) Node.js v18.18.0 [bin/ember-cli] ember-cli process stopped. Terminating unicorn. I, [2024-01-09T12:16:29.807626 #28806] INFO -- : reaped # worker=0 I, [2024-01-09T12:16:29.807784 #28806] INFO -- : reaped # worker=1 I, [2024-01-09T12:16:29.807859 #28806] INFO -- : reaped # worker=2 I, [2024-01-09T12:16:29.807937 #28806] INFO -- : master complete

Can you try clearing your node_modules folder and running yarn again to install the dependencies? Also, if you have multiple node versions installed, you could try with a more recent version. (Locally, I have node v21.2.0 and building the app works.)

Unable to start discourse from source while running "bin/ember-cli -u"

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Ezequiel_Salas (Ezequiel Salas) February 4, 2024, 10:39pm 4

i had the same issue running node v20.5.1, upraded it to v21.2.0 resolved the issue

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