Failed to extract shortcode: shortcode "alert" has no .Inner, yet a closing tag was provided

[stephansainleger]

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Describe the bug

Hi!
after the install of LotusDocs theme (manual installation by cloning the theme files), I tried hugo serve and I get an error concerning the alert shortcode.

Here is the shortcode concerned:

{{% alert context="info" %}}
my text
{{% /alert %}}

I wonder if it is not a side effect of the following recent update: `5c59008#diff-83f19c21cf48a204476a2ccf63d323c91bd1310d1f99462e590a4878a2d44846L23

Expected behavior

Shortcode alert is understood by LotusDocs and the hugo serve command run successfully.

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Environment

- OS: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
- Browser: N/A
- Browser Version: N/A

[colinwilson]

Thanks. 👍.

Can you post the error itself?

[stephansainleger]

Here is the complete error message:

$ hugo serve
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.92.2+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-01-31T11:11:57Z VendorInfo=ubuntu:0.92.2-1ubuntu0.1
Error: Error building site: "~/my-project-hugo/content/my-first-post.md:7:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found
Built in 40 ms

[colinwilson]

Have you tried with a Hugo version of 0.117.0 or above? (Or the latest version?)

[stephansainleger]

I tried with v0.119.0 and I get the following error:

$ hugo serve
hugo: downloading modules …
hugo: collected modules in 11837 ms
WARN  Module "lotusdocs" is not compatible with this Hugo version; run "hugo mod graph" for more information.
WARN  Module "github.com/gohugoio/hugo-mod-bootstrap-scss/v5" is not compatible with this Hugo version; run "hugo mod graph" for more information.
Watching for changes in my-hugo-project/{archetypes,content,themes}
Watching for config changes in my-hugo-project/config.toml, my-hugo-project/themes/lotusdocs/config.toml, my-hugo-project/go.mod
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.119.0-b84644c008e0dc2c4b67bd69cccf87a41a03937e linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-09-24T15:20:17Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

WARN  calling IsSet with unsupported type "invalid" (<nil>) will always return false.
WARN  found no layout file for "json" for kind "home": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
Built in 226 ms
Error: error building site: TOCSS: failed to transform "scss/style.scss" (text/x-scss). Check your Hugo installation; you need the extended version to build SCSS/SASS with transpiler set to 'libsass'.: this feature is not available in your current Hugo version, see https://goo.gl/YMrWcn for more information

[colinwilson]

Looks like you're not using the extended version of 0.119.0. Try with the extended version and see if that resolves the issue.

[stephansainleger]

Great it solved the issue! Thanks for your help, and I realize it was explained in the README.md... :-/ Really sorry for the inconvenience!!

[colinwilson]

No problem, you're welcome 👍.

This will thread will be helpful for the troubleshooting/common-issues section of the theme docs.