Head.html not processed in landing page only (with Hugo 0.55.6)

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The landing page of my project appears broken when built with v0.55.6 (extended,Windows/macOS), and turns out that the content of head.html partial is empty on devtools (<head></head>) On other pages, things are fine. (tested with local server only)

With the same codebase, there is no issue in landing page when built with v0.54.0 (extended/all OS).

I wonder if there was any change regarding this between the two versions. Can someone help me?

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Your particular problem is impossible to guess without more information, which would be the source code and possibly an extract of the build log if there are any errors/warnings.

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This is the build log with -v option enabled. No specific error as far as I can tell.

hugo server -v
INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 No translation bundle found for default language "en"
INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 Translation func for language en not found, use default.
INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 i18n not initialized; if you need string translations, check that you have a bundle in /i18n that matches the site language or the default language.
INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 Using config file:
Building sites … INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 syncing static files to C:\Hugo\Sites\***\
INFO 2019/07/26 03:22:08 found taxonomies: map[string]string{"category":"categories", "tag":"tags"}

                   | EN
+------------------+-----+
  Pages            | 181
  Paginator pages  |   2
  Non-page files   |   0
  Static files     | 129
  Processed images |   0
  Aliases          |   1
  Sitemaps         |   1
  Cleaned          |   0

Total in 667 ms
Watching for changes in C:\Hugo\Sites\***\{assets,content,data,layouts,static}
Watching for config changes in C:\Hugo\Sites\***\config.toml
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop

But I do encounter some warning (some time after the build message above) that has not appeared in v0.54.0, as follows:

WARN 2019/07/26 03:15:30 found no layout file for "HTML" for "home": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
Total in 134 ms

I’ve already defined layouts/_default/list.html (one on https://gohugo.io/templates/lookup-order/), so this seems strange. In an attempt to mitigate the issue, I’ve created layouts/index.html or layouts/home.html but the same warning message shows up.

Can it be related to the issue I’ve described originally? Thanks for your response.

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I think I found what’s causing this.

My landing page (homepage) was missing front matter, and when I added one (even empty one like below), the page is rendered properly.

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This wasn’t an issue in v0.54.0, but on v0.55.6 <head>...</head> was completely skipped from processing on the homepage, stripping CSS styles.

And this occurs only on the homepage – other pages does not break completely.

Would it be proper to assume that all pages require front matter?

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Yes. Pages require front matter.

However currently there is an issue about allowing pages without front matter:

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