Moving Magento 2 after ElasticSuite Install breaks added theme

[timstoel]

Preconditions

Nginx 1.10.3
PHP 7.0.22
MariaDB 10.0.31
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
ElasticSearch 2.4.6
Dedicated server, SSD array, 16 cores, 48GB memory

Magento Version : 2.2.0 CE

ElasticSuite Version : 2.4.0

Environment : Devloper for install, trying to deploy to production is the problem

Third party modules : ShipStation, MailChimp, SMTP module

Steps to reproduce

1. Magento 2.2.0 installation
2. Install and activate Porto theme
3. Install ElasticSearch following documentation, verify using curl localhost:9200
4. Install module and deploy Magento 2 in production mode with the following steps

bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer
composer require smile/elasticsuite ^2.4.0
bin/magento module:enable Smile_ElasticsuiteCore Smile_ElasticsuiteCatalog Smile_ElasticsuiteSwatches Smile_ElasticsuiteCatalogRule Smile_ElasticsuiteVirtualCategory Smile_ElasticsuiteThesaurus Smile_ElasticsuiteCatalogOptimizer Smile_ElasticsuiteTracker
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento index:reindex
bin/magento deploy:mode:set production

Expected result

1. Magento 2 should deploy in production mode

Actual result

1. These two files get deleted from the installation:

pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/css/styles-m.css
pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/css/styles-l.css

2. The system.log shows:

Deploy using quick strategy
frontend/Magento/blank/en_US            2160/2160           ============================ 100% %  9 secs
adminhtml/Magento/backend/en_US         2121/2121           ============================ 100% %  10 secs
frontend/Magento/luma/en_US             2175/2175           ============================ 100% %  11 secs
frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US          2060/2332           ========================>--- 88% %   3 secs
Compilation from source: /var/www/magento2/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank/web/css/styles-m.less
variable @autocomplete-item__border is undefined in file /var/www/magento2/var/view_preprocessed/pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/Smile_ElasticsuiteCore/css/source/_module.less in _module.less on line 30, column 34
28|                 border-bottom: 0;
29|             }
frontend/Magento/blank/en_US            2160/2160           ============================ 100% %  9 secs
adminhtml/Magento/backend/en_US         2121/2121           ============================ 100% %  10 secs
frontend/Magento/luma/en_US             2175/2175           ============================ 100% %  11 secs
frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US          2064/2332           ========================>--- 88% %   6 secs
Compilation from source: /var/www/magento2/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank/web/css/styles-l.less
variable @autocomplete-item__border is undefined in file /var/www/magento2/var/view_preprocessed/pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/Smile_ElasticsuiteCore/css/source/_module.less in _module.less on line 30, column 34
28|                 border-bottom: 0;
29|             }
frontend/Magento/blank/en_US            2160/2160           ============================ 100% %  9 secs
adminhtml/Magento/backend/en_US         2121/2121           ============================ 100% %  10 secs
frontend/Magento/luma/en_US             2175/2175           ============================ 100% %  11 secs
frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US          2067/2332           ========================>--- 88% %   7 secs


  [Magento\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException]
  Cannot read contents from file "/var/www/magento2/pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/css/styles-m.css" Warning!file_get_contents(/var/www/magento2/pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/por
  to/en_US/css/styles-m.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory


setup:static-content:deploy [-f|--force] [-s|--strategy [STRATEGY]] [-a|--area [AREA]] [--exclude-area [EXCLUDE-AREA]] [-t|--theme [THEME]] [--exclude-theme [EXCLUDE-THEME]] [-l|--language [LANGUAGE]] [--exclude-language [EXCLUDE-LANGUAGE]] [-j|--jobs [JOBS]] [--symlink-locale] [--content-version CONTENT-VERSION] [--refresh-content-version-only] [--no-javascript] [--no-css] [--no-less] [--no-images] [--no-fonts] [--no-html] [--no-misc] [--no-html-minify] [--] [<languages>]...
 [] []
[2017-12-24 20:00:06] main.INFO: Too late for the schedule Schedule Id: 1299228 Job Code: indexer_reindex_all_invalid [] []
[2017-12-24 20:04:04] main.INFO: Too late for the schedule Schedule Id: 1299484 Job Code: indexer_reindex_all_invalid [] []

I tried re-uploading the files and re-reploying in production again, but running bin/magento deploy:mode:set production removes them again. Before installing ElasticSuite deploying was not a problem.

I also found this issue related to the warnings:
#222

[timstoel]

Found the solution in issue #91 !

[pawanguleria]

Install the Patch for Magento 2.X and after that clear your cache and static folder and then upgrade and deploy, you will get everything fine.