Server .92.4 - Named export 'fileTypeFromBuffer' not found

[digiospace]

Description

Debian 12. nodejs v18.19.0 npm 9.2.0

upgrading from an older install of server from zadam.

running .92.4 gives me:

file: ./node_modules/image-type/index.js:1

SyntaxError: Named export 'fileTypeFromBuffer' not found

CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:

import pkg from 'file-type';
const {fileTypeFromBuffer} = pkg

So I changed the first line of ./node_modules/image-type/index.js from:

import {fileTypeFromBuffer} from 'file-type';

to:

import pkg from 'file-type';
const {fileTypeFromBuffer} = pkg;

and things worked after that. I do not know if this was the correct way to fix that.

TriliumNext Version

TriliumNextNotes-Server-v0.92.4

What operating system are you using?

Debian Bookworm

What is your setup?

Server on Debian 12 server, Notes on Debian 12 laptop.

Operating System Version

Debian 12. nodejs v18.19.0 npm 9.2.0

Error logs

No response

[eliandoran]

@digiospace , I suspect two potential causes here.

If you upgraded by coping over the source code for TriliumNext over the old Trilium instance, then most likely node_modules got mixed up. The solution is:

rm -r node_modules
npm i

If it was a clean install, then most likely the Node.js is at fault here. We are officially running on Node 22, the version 18 is pretty old and not supported by us.

[digiospace]

..now I am guessing that the location of the database (which shows as "dataDirectory": "/root/.local/share/trilium-data") is the problem. I am going to attempt to change the dataDirectory location and see if that fixes the issue.

[digiospace]

That did indeed seem to be the issue. I had initially ran Trilium as root during setup/upgrade, so I am guessing that caused the issues. I moved the /root/.local/share/trilium-data folder to /var/www/trilium-data, updated the permissions and then things worked after that.

I think I would like to set the data-directory to be in /opt/trilium-data is there a config setting for that?

[eliandoran]

@digiospace , you can set the TRILIUM_DATA environment variable.

[digiospace]

Do I add that to the config.ini file?

[eliandoran]

@digiospace , generally environment variables are added to your operating system. You can test it temporarily by running:

export TRILIUM_DATA=/desired/path 

and then running the server.

I believe @perfectra1n added support for setting environment variables in config.ini but I haven't looked into it.