Creating new version failed: Application Error

[asiloisad]

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What happened?

Hi, I have often encountered an error when trying to publish a package `Creating new version failed: Application error'. My observation I often encounter this error while trying to publish a few packages in a row.

On the same hand, I have first tried to now produce too many new tags, but to overwrite them. It looks like `--allow-same-version' doesn't work.

Pulsar version

1.111.0

Which OS does this happen on?

🪟 Windows

OS details

win 10 x64

Which CPU architecture are you running this on?

x86_64/AMD64

What steps are needed to reproduce this?

try to publish a package

Additional Information:

log file:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli   'c:\\ProgramData\\Pulsar\\resources\\app\\ppm\\bin\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'c:\\ProgramData\\Pulsar\\resources\\app\\ppm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'version',
1 verbose cli   '1.1.0',
1 verbose cli   '-m',
1 verbose cli   'Prepare v%s release'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose stack Error: Version not changed, might want --allow-same-version
4 verbose stack     at persistVersion (c:\ProgramData\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\node_modules\npm\lib\version.js:98:16)
4 verbose stack     at c:\ProgramData\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\node_modules\npm\lib\version.js:52:7
4 verbose stack     at c:\ProgramData\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\node_modules\npm\lib\version.js:129:5
4 verbose stack     at c:\ProgramData\Pulsar\resources\app\ppm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:123:16
4 verbose stack     at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (node:internal/fs/read_file_context:68:3)
5 verbose cwd C:\Data\Develop\Pulsar\open-external
6 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19045
7 verbose argv "c:\\ProgramData\\Pulsar\\resources\\app\\ppm\\bin\\node.exe" "c:\\ProgramData\\Pulsar\\resources\\app\\ppm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "version" "1.1.0" "-m" "Prepare v%s release"
8 verbose node v16.0.0
9 verbose npm  v6.14.19-pulsar1-1
10 error Version not changed, might want --allow-same-version
11 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[confused-Techie]

I've been doing some research into this one, and it seems a little strange.

For whatever reason the logs here are coming out blank, unfortunately meaning we are getting zero logging. At the very least I can confirm it's not an issue of authentication, since I can see from the logs the server is successfully authenticating you against GitHub.

I'll continue to research this and maybe being able to work in a more synchronous way on Discord would be beneficial into troubleshooting this in real time. Although there's a rather large refactor I'm planning to merge pretty soon here for the backend that may either fix this or provide more insight into what's gone wrong.

As for the --allow-same-version I don't have much insight on, and would hope someone more familiar with the contents of this repo could shed some light.

[asiloisad]

I have caught the Creating new version failed: Application Error 2 minutes ago again 👍 It was the fifth publish in a row. time UTC 18:41 10/12/2023

[confused-Techie]

@asiloisad Thanks a ton for pinging this issue again after another retry.

I've looked into the logs and am still not seeing any errors reported. Tracing the codepath being taken, it seems that everything should be being logged properly, except the possibility of retrieving the version data from GitHub's APIs. Although that should be logged, it's possible it's not. But because this normally works, I don't think it's any actual issue of your package.

I think what might be best is for us to wait until pulsar-edit/package-backend#199 gets merged, where some major improvements in this area should help us determine how to resolve this. Especially if we publish right after going to prod with this PR it'd be immensely helpful in testing it as well

[confused-Techie]

An update here, @asiloisad is that PR was merged a bit back, so it may be worth it try again. Sorry for the lag time here, but happy to hear if there's been any change.

[asiloisad]

In next week I will be releasing a lot of package updates and I will let you know if I run into this bug or not :)

[confused-Techie]

@asiloisad Sounds like a plan! If you do encounter an error just try to let me know before 30 days has passed along with a name of the package and if possible approximate time, thanks!

[asiloisad]

It look like the problem has been fixed. Thank you!