Updating to 1.5 failed

[ledermann]

I just tried to update my self-hosted Plausible instance running on Docker from 1.4.4 to 1.5.0 by just updating the Docker service using the image plausible/analytics:v1.

After restart, the container failed with these logs:

ERROR! Config provider Config.Reader failed with:
** (Jason.DecodeError) unexpected byte at position 38: 0x70 ("p")
    lib/jason.ex:92: Jason.decode!/2
    (stdlib 3.17.1) erl_eval.erl:685: :erl_eval.do_apply/6
    (stdlib 3.17.1) erl_eval.erl:446: :erl_eval.expr/5
    (elixir 1.13.4) src/elixir.erl:296: :elixir.recur_eval/3
    (elixir 1.13.4) src/elixir.erl:274: :elixir.eval_forms/3
    (elixir 1.13.4) lib/code.ex:404: Code.validated_eval_string/3
    (elixir 1.13.4) lib/config.ex:260: Config.__eval__!/3
    (elixir 1.13.4) lib/config/reader.ex:92: Config.Reader.read!/2
{"init terminating in do_boot",{#{'__exception__'=>true,'__struct__'=>'Elixir.Jason.DecodeError',data=><<"{\"tags\":[\"plausible/analytics:v1.5.0\",plausible/analytics:v1.5,plausible/analytics:v1,\"plausible/analytics:latest\"],\"labels\":{\"org.opencontainers.image.title\":\"analytics\",\"org.opencontainers.image.description\":\"Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.\",\"org.opencontainers.image.url\":\"https://github.com/plausible/analytics\",\"org.opencontainers.image.source\":\"https://github.com/plausible/analytics\",\"org.opencontainers.image.version\":\"v1.5.0\",\"org.opencontainers.image.created\":\"2022-12-02T15:45:09.831Z\",\"org.opencontainers.image.revision\":\"f9ab2650b3192021d5808cc8f20064aa8af543f4\",\"org.opencontainers.image.licenses\":\"AGPL-3.0\"}}">>,position=>38,token=>nil},[{'Elixir.Jason','decode!',2,[{file,"lib/jason.ex"},{line,92},{error_info,#{module=>'Elixir.Exception'}}]},{erl_eval,do_apply,6,[{file,"erl_eval.erl"},{line,685}]},{erl_eval,expr,5,[{file,"erl_eval.erl"},{line,446}]},{elixir,recur_eval,3,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,296}]},{elixir,eval_forms,3,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,274}]},{'Elixir.Code',validated_eval_string,3,[{file,"lib/code.ex"},{line,404}]},{'Elixir.Config','__eval__!',3,[{file,"lib/config.ex"},{line,260}]},{'Elixir.Config.Reader','read!',2,[{file,"lib/config/reader.ex"},{line,92}]}]}}
init terminating in do_boot ({,[{Elixir.Jason,decode!,2,[{_},{_},{_}]},{erl_eval,do_apply,6,[{_},{_}]},{erl_eval,expr,5,[{_},{_}]},{elixir,recur_eval,3,[{_},{_}]},{elixir,eval_forms,3,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.Code,validated_eval_string,3,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.Config,__eval__!,3,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.Config.Reader,read!,2,[{_},{_}]}]})
Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...done

Reverting to 1.4.4 works fine.

[ruslandoga]

👋 @ledermann

A quick fix is to set BUILD_MATEDATA to {} in plausible-conf.env

...
BASE_URL=replace-me
SECRET_KEY_BASE=replace-me
+ BUILD_METADATA={}

More info: #2491 (comment)

[ledermann]

Thanks, this works!