After install and registration, I cannot start Firefly (An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template)

[bandiba]

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• ... there are no open or closed issues that are related to my problem
• ... it's definitely a Firefly III issue, not me

Description

I managed to install Firefly, could register, and log in. Created a test account etc. However, after a while a Whoops error was displayed, and I could not get into Firefly any more at the defined domain name.

"Unfortunately, this error was not recoverable :(. Firefly III broke. The error is:

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("file_put_contents(/var/www/firefly-iii/storage/framework/cache/data/f1/27/f127c8487f61dca9911a93f9ccb47b406acb934c): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory").

This error occured in file /var/www/firefly-iii/resources/views/index.twig on line 108 with code 0."

nginx seems to be OK, I get this displayed at localhost:

"Welcome to nginx!
If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

For online documentation and support please refer to nginx.org.
Commercial support is available at nginx.com.

Thank you for using nginx."

Could someone pls advice what I could do.

It is a no-docker installation, basically following this instruction: https://ugeeklab.com/how-to-install-firefly-iii-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts/

Debug information

I'm sorry I do not know how to do it.

Expected behaviour

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Steps to reproduce

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Additional info

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[JC5]

Check out these instructions! Let me know if they are clear enough :)

https://docs.firefly-iii.org/references/faq/docker/#i-get-permission-denied-errors-on-the-cache-folder

[bandiba]

Thank you for the quick reply!

I did not use docker for the installation, so I did not execute the docker command.

I have browsed to the domain/flush page, another error was displayed, but then Firefly started...

Thank you for the advice!

I'm still experimenting with Firefly, the error page comes up relatively often, at different tasks/pages, so I flush, and carry on... A little bit annoying.

Would the docker based installation be more stable? If yes, do I need to remove/clean the current installation somehow before going for docker?

Thanks!

[JC5]

See https://docs.firefly-iii.org/references/faq/install/#unable-to-write-to-cache-directory

Docker and a normal installation aren't that much different.

[bandiba]

Thanks, this helped!