WebUI not rendering; jslibs and static content not working

Troubleshooting
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Brief description of the problem

  • mistakenly updated system (zypper update) Rockstor updated 5.0.8 → 5.0.15
  • Lots of things broke, fixed them but cannot get web-ui to work properly (can login normally, but then all widgets and tools are not displayed. Just logo, and title bar with time and shell)
  • I believe that jslibs are not being imported

I’ve been chatting with chatgpt all day in seemingly circular motions about this.

the venv seems to be running python 3.11. A migration step didn’t succeed. From history it seems that this finally fixed that: /usr/local/bin/poetry run python src/rockstor/manage.py migrate --fake-initial

cGPT changed my nginx.conf because it wasn’t serving static files correctly? I think it’s back but the primary difference was between

    location /static/ {
        alias /opt/rockstor/static/;
    }

and 

            location /static {
                root /opt/rockstor/;
            }

I didn’t have any jslibs. But was able to extract it from

tar xvzf ../rockstor-jslibs.tar.gz

It wanted jquery to be there but I got a little confused at this point. By suggestion - I did get curl -LO https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js , renamed it to jquery.min.js and copied it to jquery directory. I’m confused by the GitHub - rockstor/rockstor-jslibs: Third party javascript libraries used in the frontend containing something that looks like jquery.i18n.js

Finally “we” got into a loop where it wanted this to work:

/opt/rockstor/.venv/bin/python src/rockstor/manage.py collectstatic --noinput

It kept telling me that it should collect the static files and jslibs files together.

Never does the web interface start working. What can I clean up, and re-install to get this working again? I really don’t want to start over but I do have full backups of this system.

Sorry, as there is lots of frontend confusion on my end.

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@leog welcome to the Rockstor community. I think at this point, you might be better off to re-install.

It’s strange that the certain libraries might not have been imported. Does the WebUI still work to the point that you can create and download a configuration backup (or do you have a recent one that you’ve offloaded external to Rockstor)? If yes, then the re-install could be pretty painless and quick.

The age of the jslibs (and some now superfluous ones) is one of the reasons, that there is an activity planned to renovate the WebUI to make it both simpler and more responsive, but for that to happen there are a few more backend items that will be addressed first. But, it’s coming eventually.

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