Hugo 0.45 Fails to build site

Builds fine on 0.44. Fails with 0.45 both locally on Netlify.

> C:/src/Hugo/bin/hugo.exe server -D --disableFastRender

Building sites … ERROR 2018/07/23 17:25:33 Failed to render "_default/list.algolia.json": runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
ERROR 2018/07/23 17:25:33 Stack Trace:
goroutine 735 [running]:
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.stackTrace(0x4b0, 0xf14a71, 0x17)
        /go/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/page.go:280 +0x7d
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*Site).renderForLayouts.func1(0xc0463d58a0, 0xc0423b4600)
        /go/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/site.go:1742 +0x13c
panic(0xddca80, 0x15af010)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:502 +0x237
text/template.errRecover(0xc0463d57d8)
        /usr/local/go/src/text/template/exec.go:137 +0x1db
panic(0xddca80, 0x15af010)
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:502 +0x237
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*Page).IsDescendant(0xc043316500, 0xec0d00, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /go/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/site_sections.go:89 +0x58
reflect.Value.call(0xec0d00, 0xc043316500, 0x6213, 0xec6a2b, 0x4, 0xc04a52ba20, 0x1, 0x1, 0xebb520, 0xde4601, ...)
        /usr/local/go/src/reflect/value.go:447 +0x970
reflect.Value.Call(0xec0d00, 0xc043316500, 0x6213, 0xc04a52ba20, 0x1, 0x1, 0x10a3d00, 0xc0424d0ea0, 0xec0d00)
        /usr/local/go/src/reflect/value.go:308 +0xab
text/template.(*state).evalCall(0xc0478cf758, 0xec0d00, 0xc043e13500, 0x196, 0xec0d00, 0xc043316500, 0x6213, 0x10a3d00, 0xc0424d0e70, 0xc0424a3b25, ...)
        /usr/local/go/src
Total in 796 ms
Error: Error building site: logged 2 error(s)

Source is here:

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See here for a possible workaround: Panic Error with .GetPage in Hugo 0.45

But this is also a bug (read further down that topic).

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Argh! Annoying. Hopefully someone can put a more meaningful error message on that at some point. I’d have never found that, thanks. I will give the workaround a go now.

I believe that’s a Go limitation… If some function has nil as an argument, it goes crazy (I’m 100% sure that statement is technically incorrect :P). But I have seen this many times in different contexts, and the rule of the thumb is: Use with – Don’t assume your function arguments to be non-nil.

Already open issue to track stracktrace due to nil


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Well, I couldn’t get the workaround to work in my case. Probably my brain is fried in this heat.

So I’ve killed off the offending template which was supposed to be creating a search JSON file for Algolia but I haven’t managed to get Algolia search to work anyway. A job for another time.