Quarto crashes when rendering

[Marlene283]

Description

Hello,

I am new to github, so I am not sure if I post this question at the correct place.
Anyway:

I use quarto with R. I updated today R to version 4.4.1 and RStudio to 2024.09.0 Build 375.
Since the updates, when I try to render a document (html output), quarto crashes with this output:

ERROR: Theme file compilation failed:

===== CRASH =====

Stack trace:

===== CRASH =====
at dartCommand (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43445:15)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
at async dartCompile (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43407:5)
at async compileWithCache (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43636:17)
at async compileSass (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43497:12)
at async resolveSassBundles (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:65862:27)
at async resolveExtras (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:69904:18)
at async runPandoc (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:69425:24)
at async renderPandoc (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:70717:26)
at async Object.onRender (file:///C:/PROGRA~ 1/RStudio/RESOUR~ 1/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:78268:36)

When I use 'quarto check' in the terminal I get the following output:

C:\Users\Marlene\Documents>quarto check

Quarto 1.5.57
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
Deno version 1.41.0: OK
Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.5.57
Path: C:\Program Files\RStudio\resources\app\bin\quarto\bin
CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (not installed)
Chromium: (not installed)

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Tex: (not detected)

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

ERROR: Theme file compilation failed:

===== CRASH =====

Stack trace:

===== CRASH =====
at dartCommand (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43445:15)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
at async dartCompile (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43407:5)
at async compileWithCache (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43636:17)
at async compileSass (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:43497:12)
at async resolveSassBundles (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:65862:27)
at async resolveExtras (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:69904:18)
at async runPandoc (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:69425:24)
at async renderPandoc (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:70717:26)
at async Object.onRender (file:///C:/Program%20Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.js:78268:36)

I noticed the paths are a bit screwed up in the crash report (e.g. "Program Files" turned into "Program%20Files"), is that normal or might that be an issue?

I hope this covers everything you need to know about the issue. I am not sure what to do, this exceeds my skills in error fixing. Can you help me?

Thanks for your help!

[cscheid]

The fact that quarto check itself is failing is worrisome. @cderv What do you think?

[cderv]

The only thing I forgot to try out, was trying a older version of RStudio. I tried this today and with the 2024.04.2 Build 764 version, I don't have the issue anymore

This is interesting ! Only thing I can see related to Quarto is that it is using a different version 🤔

Do you know which version you have know ? quarto check inside RStudio IDE terminal now returns what ?

I really would like to understand the problem here... 🤔

[Marlene283]

C:\Users\Marlene\Documents>quarto check
Quarto 1.4.555
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.4.555
Path: C:\Program Files\RStudio\resources\app\bin\quarto\bin
CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (not installed)
Chromium: (not installed)

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Tex: (not detected)

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....(None)

  Unable to locate an installed version of Python 3.
  Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

[>] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.4.1
Path: C:/PROGRA1/R/R-441.1
LibPaths:
- C:/Users/Marlene/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4
- C:/Program Files/R/R-4.4.1/library
knitr: 1.48
rmarkdown: 2.28

[>] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[cderv]

So quarto 1.4.555 seems to work for you and latest 1.5.57 does not 😞

as I can't reproduce this won't be easy to understand what is the problem...

If you are willing to test more to help us, you could try install quarto 1.5.57 without updating RStudio. Just download and install from https://quarto.org/docs/download/ and see if the problems happens again.

Maybe you system flag the older binaries wrongly...

In the meantime, I'll see the changes that happened between those version.
This rules out previous commit mentioned at #10994 (reply in thread) as it is older.

[Marlene283]

I tried it out and with only updating quarto to version 1.5.57 without updating RStudio I do still get the same problem. Reverting back to quarto 1.4.555 works again

[cderv]

Thanks a lot for trying this ! We have narrow down a little which may help us find the problem, even if not reproducible. It could also be an update in dependencies between 1.4.555 and 1.5.57 but this is more problematic.

I really wish I can understand how to reproduce