New version of Lively fails to install #1789
Description
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First, after pulling and installing the new version of lively (git pull today), I got:
rick@LAPTOP-I4KMLV6U:~/lively.next$ ./start-server.sh
`entr` is not installed. Hot-reloading of files changed outside of `lively.next` will be disabled.
2026-03-26T04:49:50.411Z info: [lively.server] system base directory: /home/rick/lively.next
2026-03-26T04:50:03.336Z info: [lively.server] 1. preparing system
2026-03-26T04:50:04.778Z error: Error starting server: ENOENT: no such file or directory, unlink '/home/rick/lively.next/lively.server/.module_cache/home/rick/lively.next/lively.lang/index.js'
Loading /home/rick/lively.next/lively.resources/src/esm-resource.js
Loading lively.resources
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, unlink '/home/rick/lively.next/lively.server/.module_cache/home/rick/lively.next/lively.lang/index.js'
rick@LAPTOP-I4KMLV6U:~/lively.next$ ls lively.server/.module_cache/
So I removed .module_cache, and then the server started. However, going to http://localhost:9011 produced a blank screen and this error in the browser console
deps.js:2008 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Invalid Version: aM
Evaluating http://127.0.0.1:9011/dashboard/index-BBd7MzBj.js
Evaluating http://127.0.0.1:9011/dashboard/landing-page.js
Loading ./landing-page.js
at new SemVer (index-BBd7MzBj.js:21093:25)
at SemVer (index-BBd7MzBj.js:21089:67)
at Object.execute (index-BBd7MzBj.js:21817:7)
at doEvaluateDeclarative (deps.js:3051:40)
at doEvaluateDeclarative (deps.js:2996:36)
at ensureEvaluate (deps.js:2925:29)
at deps.js:2550:16
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