Uploading images is not possible

[jorgesat]

Describe the bug

An error message is shown when trying to upload any image (post, community icon, instance icon). The message is the following:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Context

• Hardware: VPS bought online
• YunoHost version: 11.0.9.14
• I have access to my server: Through SSH | through the webadmin
• Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance?: no
• Lemmy version: 0.16.7

Steps to reproduce

• Install an instance.
• Try to upload instance icon or banner, or try to upload an image to be posted.

Expected behavior

The instance should be able to accept image uploads.

Logs

Lemmy service log here: https://paste.yunohost.org/uhehososov

[yalh76]

That should be because pict-rs has been removed from lemmy_ynh as it was too difficult to maintain

[Xananax]

That's understandable, but is there a proposed mitigation? Can a user willing to take some risks install that module, for example? Is there a replacement? It seems to me like not having access to image uploads hampers the usefulness severely no?

Not being able to have icons also makes the installed lemmy instance feel unwelcoming.

edit: If anyone wants to explore installing this independently, the source is here: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/

And it seems after installing, you'd have to edit lemmy-dev.hjson and add the line pictrs_url: "http://pictrs:8080" (or whatever else you're serving pictrs from).

I'm not entirely sure I understand all of it, but I'll try to make it work in the next few days.

[yalh76]

ok, let me know if it works, we could add informations into the readme

[Xananax]

Do you have the time to give me some context? What does "it caused too much issue during compilation" mean?

If not it's ok, I'll figure it out

[yalh76]

On 77c7db4#diff-6233345de4867c7ccf72bac1fc1067988d2a4c8e1ab9a746956eafccf88cfed2 , you can see what I've removed.

Before removing it last package_check was https://ci-apps.yunohost.org/ci/job/9054

Usually rust compilation failed on error: failed to get rust-s3 as a dependency of package pict-rs v0.3.0-rc.2

[Xananax]

Sorry, my VPS is too small, I had to remove some apps, of which Lemmy. I won't be pursuing this issue at the moment, unfortunately. I may later if I size up my instance.

From a very short preliminary research:

• [bug] error: failed to get serde as a dependency of package app v0.1.0 (/Users/project) · Issue #3640 · tauri-apps/tauri
• cargo <1.60 failed to select a version of a dependency due to either ? (weak) or dep: (namespaced) features · Issue #10623 · rust-lang/cargo
• rust - Cargo Error: failed to get X as a dependency - Stack Overflow

It seems like the issue is in the dependency chain. Possible mitigations:

• delete ~/.cargo/registry/index directory and run cargo update again
• deleteing Cargo.lock and running cargo update again
• If using a weak dep ?, try locking a specific version

[retiolus]

Hi, any updates on this?

This makes the Lemmy installation on Yunohost partially unusable... I don't think it should be marked as a "High-quality app" on the catalogue until this problem is fixed.

[retiolus]

Hi, it's actually possible to "upload" images to Lemmy without pict-rs, publications can link to an external image, and the body can also use to do that. For avatars and banners, you can use Lemmy's API to specify external images as such.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/SaveUserSettings.html#avatar

[tobitobsengermanyone]

Nice Thanks! Problem i have, i have no clue for everything outside of the "yunohost & other Panels", i already crashed my server few times, so really can use only this "simple" user friendly solutions, like plesk, yunohost administration... but thanks! tobi

[tituspijean]

I have started reimplementing Pict-RS, cf. PR mentioned above. It is still a work in progress, as uploads still fail. Contributions are welcome.

[tobitobsengermanyone]

Thanks for the Updates. I am not so good with coding in particular but, I'm running a working lemmy instance thanks to elest.io. But that's not optimal, because, it's with elest.io not with my own hardware. But for research, elest.io is very cool, they have a one click deployment with lemmy code editor etcetera pp. They have free trials and many code editing tools. But I am not affiliated with them but maybe this can help. Good week. tituspijean ***@***.***> schrieb am Di., 20. Juni 2023, 00:24:

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[DrMxrcy]

I have started reimplementing Pict-RS, cf. PR mentioned above. It is still a work in progress, as uploads still fail. Contributions are welcome.

Thanks for working on this!

[D4llo]

Any update? I am not a rust developer but maybe I can help?