Panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

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Every time I start hugo server or an actual hugo build I get this error. What is interesting is that when I try it again 1-2 times the problem disappears

hugo server

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panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0x49889c4]

goroutine 469 [running]:
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*pageState).getLayoutDescriptor.func1()
        /private/tmp/hugo-20190518-58253-nn5aqm/hugo-0.55.6/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/page.go:297 +0x334
sync.(*Once).Do(0xc000dda3a8, 0xc03aed3828)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.12.5/libexec/src/sync/once.go:44 +0xb3
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*pageState).getLayoutDescriptor(0xc000a7fbf0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
        /private/tmp/hugo-20190518-58253-nn5aqm/hugo-0.55.6/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/page.go:287 +0x84
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*pageState).getLayouts(0xc000a7fbf0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc00222db30, 0x3e, 0xc000a668d0, 0xc0032e8580, 0x8)
        /private/tmp/hugo-20190518-58253-nn5aqm/hugo-0.55.6/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/page.go:324 +0x15e
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.pageRenderer(0xc002417bc0, 0xc0000c4700, 0xc00363e900, 0xc00283b920, 0xc0021b6220)
        /private/tmp/hugo-20190518-58253-nn5aqm/hugo-0.55.6/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/site_render.go:139 +0x236
created by github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib.(*Site).renderPages
        /private/tmp/hugo-20190518-58253-nn5aqm/hugo-0.55.6/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/site_render.go:73 +0x160

It is not hard for me to rerun this command locally few times, but it becomes a huge problem on CI build workflow

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If you share your code, or create a minimal reproducible example and share that, we can try to help.

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I’m not sure what part of the project I need to share (I can’t share everything)
Are there some commands which will help me in my investigation?

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Just enough to reproduce the issue.

There is the --debug flag

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There are not many clues in
hugo server --debug
Just the same error without any additional info about the causes.
But searching in other support posts gave me a hint which looks like a working fix.

config.toml
debug = 100000

(x10 from default)
I assume that the problem is I have a lot of images which needs to be resized. Don’t know why the cached ones is not enough, but this helps (I hope)g

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Which config setting did you change, debug or timeout ?

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I ran
hugo server --debug
Then added this to config.toml:
timeout = 100000

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That makes sense. You may want to edit your post then.

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