Mastodon Upgrade to 4.2.0 Asset Compilation failed

February 4, 2024

Why

Here I was trying to be a good Mastodon admin and upgrade the version. I was coming from the 4.0.x branch.

I encountered the following issues and sharing the direct solution as I had to piece together a few different methods from my searches and no one had a direct answer for this.

Issue 1

I was seeing this error while trying to bundle install:

Your bundle is locked to json-canonicalization (0.3.2) from rubygems repository https://rubygems.org/ or installed locally, but that version can no longer be found in that source. That means the author of json-canonicalization (0.3.2) has removed it. You'll need to update your bundle to a version other than json-canonicalization (0.3.2) that hasn't been removed in order to install.

Issue 2

Also, this issue later while pre-compiling the web assets:

mastodon@mastodon:~/live$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
Compiling...
Compilation failed:

mastodon@mastodon:~/live$

How

Issue 1 Solution

If you are temporary moving to 4.2.0 instead of a higher version where it is fixed (at least in 4.2.5 it’s at 1.0.0), you can move higher json-canonicalization in your Gemfile.lock.

When I moved it to 0.3.3 I was able to move forward with the upgrade, not sure if 1.0.0 works with < 4.2.5.

[...snip...]
json-canonicalization (0.3.3)
[...snip...]

Issue 2 Solution

Turns out that this command was running out of memory. The base usage of my node is a little over 1G.

So, when webpack was running, it was running out of memory over my 2G limit. Upping my memory to 4G solved the problem.

If you only see this:

Compiling...
Compilation failed:
`isModuleDeclaration` has been deprecated, please migrate to `isImportOrExportDeclaration`
    at isModuleDeclaration (/home/mastodon/live/node_modules/babel-plugin-lodash/node_modules/@babel/types/lib/validators/generated/index.js:2740:35)
    at PluginPass.Program (/home/mastodon/live/node_modules/babel-plugin-lodash/lib/index.js:102:44)

and nothing else, it’s probably a red-herring. This is a deprecation warning… just a shame it’s directly under the heading of Compilation Failed:.