Mastodon: Mastodon 2.7.2 frontend crashes on DM column load

[Luzifer]

Expected behaviour

• Frontend is loading properly and does not crash

Actual behaviour

• Frontend loads most of the content and then crashes

Steps to reproduce the problem

• ... not fully clear ...
• Update instance from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2
• Reload the web-ui
• UI loads Home, Notifications, Local and List column, DM column is empty
• Interface crashes and a blank screen is left

Specifications

• Tested in
  
  
  
  • Windows 10, Chrome Beta 73
  
  
  • Linux, Chrome Beta 73
  
  
  • Linux, Chrome Stable 72
  
  
  • Linux, Firefox 65
  
  
• According to dev-tools (source map used) crash occurs in index.js#L137 when trying to call getWrappedInstance on null object.
  react-dom.production.min.js:179 TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined at t.render (display_name.js:31) at co (react-dom.production.min.js:163) at so (react-dom.production.min.js:162) at po (react-dom.production.min.js:169) at $o (react-dom.production.min.js:204) at Yo (react-dom.production.min.js:205) at Ni (react-dom.production.min.js:220) at Ii (react-dom.production.min.js:219) at xi (react-dom.production.min.js:216) at ti (react-dom.production.min.js:214) [...] react-dom.production.min.js:179 TypeError: Cannot read property 'getWrappedInstance' of null at application-f86408ab580b14c099f7.js:formatted:1001 at wo (react-dom.production.min.js:179) at Oo (react-dom.production.min.js:182) at So (react-dom.production.min.js:187) at Di (react-dom.production.min.js:226) at Ni (react-dom.production.min.js:220) at Ii (react-dom.production.min.js:219) at xi (react-dom.production.min.js:216) at ti (react-dom.production.min.js:214) at Object.enqueueSetState (react-dom.production.min.js:134) [...] alerts.js:46 TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined at t.render (display_name.js:31) at co (react-dom.production.min.js:163) at so (react-dom.production.min.js:162) at po (react-dom.production.min.js:169) at $o (react-dom.production.min.js:204) at Yo (react-dom.production.min.js:205) at Ni (react-dom.production.min.js:220) at Ii (react-dom.production.min.js:219) at xi (react-dom.production.min.js:216) at ti (react-dom.production.min.js:214)
• Sadly I was not able to find out what exactly caused that issue due to the limitations of Chrome dev tools in combination with minified production code.
• Assumption is there might be some older and likely broken DM conversation which causes trouble with the changes from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2.

[Luzifer]

In the meantime I ~might have~ found the reason:

I do have one DM thread with an empty array for accounts:

{
  "id": "11307",
  "unread": false,
  "accounts": [],
  "last_status": {
    "id": "101063429786697282",
    "created_at": "2018-11-13T10:39:17.127Z",
// --- Shortened
    "mentions": [],
    "tags": [],
    "emojis": [],
    "card": null
  }
}

When using the first() element of an empty array this might cause trouble.

Edit: Confirmed the above. This was the reason: A single DM I sent to another user. After deleting that particular status the interface is loading again properly.

[ghost]

Same thing at mastodont.cat after updating to v2.7.2. When I reply to a direct message the interface goes blank

cc @Gargron

[ghost]

Downgraded to v2.7.1 for now.

[ThibG]

It seems to me it can occur whenever none of the participants of a conversation exist anymore.

[leahoswald]

Is there a planned bugfix release for that issue? We have multiple users affected by the problem, so it would be great if we could fix it without patching it manually.

[angristan]

Agreed, if have some users that can't use the front-end at all, so it would be great if they didn't have too wait for too long 😥

Edit: If other admins don't want to run on master either, you can manually apply the patch with:

wget https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10078.patch
git apply 10078.patch

[ghost]

@nazco they already fixed it. You can apply the patch as mentioned by @angristan.
Already did myself and it works just fine.

[angristan]

@salvadorpla The fix is in master and not in a release so basically 0 instance currently have it

[ghost]

@angristan yes, I edited the affected files and then recompiled assets. Done.