Hugo: Error building site: failed to render pages

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?: bug

What happened: On my way to produce a minimal example for issue #759 , I encountered this problem:

I prepared the config.toml file to support a secondary language. I did not translate anything except the title in the config file.

I get this error (see also below):

render of "taxonomyTerm" failed: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:10:7: executing "_default/list.html"  ...

What you expected to happen: Hugo should generate the static site without errors.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): see code block below and specifically this commit introducing the error: https://github.com/schoettl/syna-start/commit/af02744f612184500b8848a548b534ea02f93a2e

Anything else we need to know?: I did not understand the error message and I could not find solutions on the web.

Environment:

• Syna Theme version: current from syna-start (2020-05-20)
• Hugo version: 0.71.0
• OS: Arch

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/schoettl/syna-start.git
$ git checkout bug-1
$ hugo
Building sites … WARN 2020/05/20 23:10:03 .File.Dir on zero object. Wrap it in if or with: {{ with .File }}{{ .Dir }}{{ end }}
ERROR 2020/05/20 23:10:03 render of "taxonomyTerm" failed: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:10:7: executing "_default/list.html" at <partial "helpers/fragments-renderer.html" (dict "page_scratch" .Scratch)>: error calling partial: execute of template failed: template: partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html:18:8: executing "partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html" at <partial (print "fragments/" .Params.fragment ".html") $context>: error calling partial: "/home/jakob/tmp/syna-start/themes/syna/layouts/partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12": execute of template failed: template: partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12: executing "partials/fragments/hero.html" at <.page.File.Dir>: error calling Dir: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
ERROR 2020/05/20 23:10:03 render of "taxonomyTerm" failed: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:10:7: executing "_default/list.html" at <partial "helpers/fragments-renderer.html" (dict "page_scratch" .Scratch)>: error calling partial: execute of template failed: template: partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html:18:8: executing "partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html" at <partial (print "fragments/" .Params.fragment ".html") $context>: error calling partial: "/home/jakob/tmp/syna-start/themes/syna/layouts/partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12": execute of template failed: template: partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12: executing "partials/fragments/hero.html" at <.page.File.Dir>: error calling Dir: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
Total in 517 ms
Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "home" failed: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:10:7: executing "_default/list.html" at <partial "helpers/fragments-renderer.html" (dict "page_scratch" .Scratch)>: error calling partial: execute of template failed: template: partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html:18:8: executing "partials/helpers/fragments-renderer.html" at <partial (print "fragments/" .Params.fragment ".html") $context>: error calling partial: "/home/jakob/tmp/syna-start/themes/syna/layouts/partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12": execute of template failed: template: partials/fragments/hero.html:106:12: executing "partials/fragments/hero.html" at <.page.File.Dir>: error calling Dir: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[schoettl]

@mpourismaiel Thanks a lot for your work! So for, hugo runs again. I’ll next test the other issue.

BTW, the command to create the _index/index.md file had the -e option missing.

 echo -e "+++\nheadless = true\n+++" > content/_index/index.md # create a headless page to fill the section page

[mpourismaiel]

I pushed a fix and created a PR at https://github.com/okkur/syna-start/pull/36

Let us know if the problem persists.