Hey folks, I recently tried to rebuild my Discourse container after the web UI update functionality failed, and ran into this error: Undeclared attribute type for enum 'sync_type'. Enums must be backed by a database column or declared with an explicit type via `attribute`. Full output around that …

Thanks @pfaffman , yeah, it was coming from the angusmcleod/discourse-events plugin. I had it in the hooks.after_code.exec.cmd array twice, but seems there’s some other issue with it. I’ll play with it some more when I get a chance, and file a bug on the GitHub repo for that plugin. Thankfully, we s…

I’m getting a similar error on a site when it tries to rebake images. MIne doesn’t mention sync_type however, and I don’t see sync_type in the Discourse source. Maybe your error is coming from a plugin?

[image] Jeff Byrnes: so this is just for our past events. I’m pretty sure that there’s a rake task to import them.

Yeah, someone wrote one in a pull request that wasn’t accepted Or are you saying that the official plugin has a rake task to do that importing?

I thought it did, but may be remembering some other plugin.

I did, yes. I had to disable the 3rd party discourse-events plugin & rebuild the container. Once I did that, the error went away, so I suspect it’s something out-of-date with that plugin.

Undeclared attribute type for enum 'sync_type'. Enums must be backed by a database column or declared with an explicit type via `attribute`

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saulshanabrook (Saul Shanabrook) October 8, 2024, 5:55pm 7

Did you figure out how to upgrade your site with this error? I am also getting it.

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Undeclared attribute type for enum 'sync_type'. Enums must be backed by a database column or declared with an explicit type via `attribute`

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