Unable to Build from Quickstart Page (March 1st, 2024)

[vincentmaule]

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Describe the bug

Complete Newbie to Hugo so this may be a mistake on my part.

Followed the instructions from the Quickstart Guide.

High Level Overview:

1. Installed Hugo & Go.
   a. go version = go1.22.0 linux/amd64
   b. hugo version = hugo v0.92.2+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-01-31T11:11:57Z VendorInfo=ubuntu:0.92.2-1ubuntu0.1
2. Use Hugo to make a new site & cd into said directory.
3. Initialized project (site) as a Module as a Git Rep.
   a. module git.repo.........................................................
   go 1.22.0
   require (
   github.com/colinwilson/lotusdocs v0.1.0 // indirect
   github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-bootstrap-scss/v5 v5.20300.20200 // indirect
   )
4. Add Lotus Docs as a Module to Project (site).
5. Create new Content (Example Page). Note: Please let me know if I should not be sharing the full text of the below; AKA, Cipher text.
   github.com/colinwilson/lotusdocs v0.1.0 h1:oTC8pAYQp9XDNaUwE4SEY+id3ByNELxIIFrktYEGxYA=
   github.com/colinwilson/lotusdocs v0.1.0/go.mod h1:9zu2REJDi+zdPRcR5/bRYSUR7gkNF4NQLvV38SEoCP8=
   github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-bootstrap-scss/v5 v5.20300.20200 h1:SmpwwN3DNzJWbV+IT8gaFu07ENUFpCvKou5BHYUKuVs=
   github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-bootstrap-scss/v5 v5.20300.20200/go.mod h1:kx8MBj9T7SFR8ZClWvKZPmmUxBaltkoXvnWlZZcSnYA=
   github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-jslibs-dist/popperjs/v2 v2.21100.20000/go.mod h1:mFberT6ZtcchrsDtfvJM7aAH2bDKLdOnruUHl0hlapI=
   github.com/twbs/bootstrap v5.3.2+incompatible/go.mod h1:fZTSrkpSf0/HkL0IIJzvVspTt1r9zuf7XlZau8kpcY0=
6. Pushed code to git repo.
7. Attempt to run this command: hugo server -D

user@machine:~/Documents/sites/site$ hugo server -D
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.92.2+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-01-31T11:11:57Z VendorInfo=ubuntu:0.92.2-1ubuntu0.1
WARNING: calling IsSet with unsupported type "invalid" (<nil>) will always return false.
ERROR 2024/03/01 22:34:21 render of "page" failed: execute of template failed: template: docs/single.html:25:44: executing "docs/single.html" at <partial (printf "%s/%s" ($.Scratch.Get "pathName") "breadcrumbs.html") .>: error calling partial: "/tmp/hugo_cache/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/colinwilson/[email protected]/layouts/partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html:5:55": execute of template failed: template: partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html:5:55: executing "partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html" at <.Ancestors.Reverse>: can't evaluate field Ancestors in type *hugolib.pageState
Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "section" failed: execute of template failed: template: docs/list.html:25:44: executing "docs/list.html" at <partial (printf "%s/%s" ($.Scratch.Get "pathName") "breadcrumbs.html") .>: error calling partial: "/tmp/hugo_cache/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/colinwilson/[email protected]/layouts/partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html:5:55": execute of template failed: template: partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html:5:55: executing "partials/docs/breadcrumbs.html" at <.Ancestors.Reverse>: can't evaluate field Ancestors in type *hugolib.pageState
Built in 709 ms

Expected behavior

As referenced in this page, a generated page.

Screenshots

No response

Environment

- OS: PopOS
- Browser: N/A
- Browser Version: N/A

[noxilixon]

Your hugo version is too old. You use hugo v0.92.2+extended . But in the Readme it says that you need Hugo Extended (minimum version: 0.120.0). If this version is not available in your OS repository you can use the binary release.

[vincentmaule]

Thanks for sharing something that I overlooked, will close issue based on feedback.