Gantry 5.5.0 with Joomla 3.10 - ERROR

[WolfgangDomroese]

Today my Gantry5_package was updated to 5.5.0. But it does not work with Joomla 3.10 templates. So, I think, Updating should be inhibited? Or it should work with old template as well - thats what I expected.

T get a quick help, I wanted to install "Helium" now. But installation ends with an error: "Manifestdatei (german)" not found. Does Helium no longer work with 3.10

So, what can I do to get the site to work rather soon (www.domroese.berlin)? Can I downgrade to G5_5.4?

My idea was, to do these steps:

1. Update Gantry to 5.5
2. Change template to Helium.
3. Upgrade the whole site to Joomla 4.

Does that not work?

Kind regards, Wolfgang

[mahagr]

@WolfgangDomroese Downgrading Gantry should work just fine as long as you don't save menus in Gantry admin.

Sorry for the long delay, I don't know why this issue was not responded before.

[mahagr]

Looks like the issue is in a missing SCSS file. Can you check the file in the error is still there? If it is, there may be a bug in imports.

We are going to do another release maybe tomorrow, I'll try to look if its a real bug and how it can be fixed.

[WolfgangDomroese]

The file "subfeature" is neither in the folder it should be nor at any other place in Joomla-Folder. How could it get lost - all the other files seem to be still on their places....
Should I ask szoupi-team (I was in contact with them already)?

Will downgrading help, when a template-file is lost????

[mahagr]

It should be subfolder in your theme, so likely inside templates/xxx/custom/scss (or without custom).

[WolfgangDomroese]

No, there is not...

[WolfgangDomroese]

...or do you look for this directory?

[mahagr]

It looks good. In fact, I'm able to reproduce the issue.

[WolfgangDomroese]

That sounds perfect for me - so, I only have to wait for healing :-)

[mahagr]

@WolfgangDomroese Can you try if CI build fixes your issue?

https://gantry.org/downloads#ci-builds

[WolfgangDomroese]

Please forgive me - I never did update components on my own. What to do after download on my local system? I want to avoid any new mistake. In the backend, I do an update? Or must I delete and do a new installation of joomla-pkg_gantry5_develop.zip?
Thanks for your support!

[mahagr]

No, you should NEVER uninstall anything you want back in Joomla -- it will delete all content associated with that extension.

Just download the Joomla package and install it manually from Joomla extensions installer.

[WolfgangDomroese]

Same problem as with installation of Helium:

[mahagr]

@WolfgangDomroese Make sure you installed the joomla package for it. :)

[WolfgangDomroese]

I installed this package (as zip-file):

[WolfgangDomroese]

I do not know nothing about this :-)

But this makes me wonder:

    'Joomla!' => array (
        '3.9' => '3.9.0',
        '0' => '3.9.25' // Preferred version

What about Joomla 3.10 - my version?

[mahagr]

The check is good. The error comes from Joomla which thinks that the manifest file is missing. Manifest file is the xml file inside the package, either in the root or if there's just a single folder, inside it.

[WolfgangDomroese]

I've opened an issue in Joomla-Forum:
https://forum.joomla.de/thread/14539-joomla-3-10-fehler-bei-manueller-installation-von-erweiterung/

Let's wait for answers.

[WolfgangDomroese]

I could install the pkg now. But still same error:
An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("CSS Compilation on file 'aylozs.scss' failed on error: aylozs/subfeature file not found for @import: templates/g5_aylozs/scss/aylozs.scss on line 30, at column 1 Call Stack: #0 import templates/g5_aylozs/scss/aylozs.scss (unknown file) on line 1").

[mahagr]

Hmm, OK, so you're not running to the bug but the file is really missing. Can you download the theme package and check if the file is in there? Or look into custom/scss folder if it's in there.

[WolfgangDomroese]

Searching the complete Joomla-folder by FileZilla, I do not find any file named subfeature. I've asked szoupi for sending latest package.

[mahagr]

@WolfgangDomroese I removed your post as soon as I saw it as you should never send your credentials to a public place.

You can try to create an empty file, maybe it'll fix the issue?

I think you may want to talk with the theme developer as the updated SCSS compiler is much more strict and follows better the official specs. Maybe the old one ignored missing files where the new errors out. CI builds (or later today the next release) should be used as the first release contains some bugs in SCSS compilation.

[WolfgangDomroese]

Thanks for correcting my fault.
Creating a new and empty file "subfeature" leads to next error: Now "sample" is missing. But there is a file "sample.scss.deleteme" in the folder. Should I rename to sample.scss?

[WolfgangDomroese]

btw: I installed latest updates this morning and just now (5eed68b)

[mahagr]

Or just have an empty file again. Also, contact the template creator about the issues you've been seeing.

We have a document for updating the themes in repository root and we're improving it as we speak.

[WolfgangDomroese]

WOW - my site is back with new and empty "sample"-file!

I contacted szoupi@gmail.com this morning and will report answer.

I will now do a backup of my site. And then change to Helium in a copy - and then migrate to Joomla 4.
If I can do any test for you or help in another way, I of course will!

Thanks for all!

[mahagr]

I'm also sorry that it took 7 days to fix the issues on your site.

Here's the upgrade guide:
https://github.com/gantry/gantry5/blob/develop/UPGRADE-5.5.md

We are constantly updating it to contain any issues you may run into when upgrading to Gantry 5.5 (or Joomla 4)

[WolfgangDomroese]

Thanks for all your support. The "timeout" is not a problem at all for me, as it is just a rather private site!