dengor•2w ago

Can't start a local deployment

Hey guys, thanks for building an amazing database! I can't start the local deployment:

~/workspace/humanbase % npx convex dev --local --once
waiting for local backend to start...
✖ Local backend did not start on port 3210 within 10 seconds.
✖ Hit an error while running local deployment.
Your error has been reported to our team, and we'll be working on it.
To opt out, run `npx convex disable-local-deployments`. Then re-run your original command.

~/workspace/humanbase % npx convex dev --local --once
waiting for local backend to start...
✖ Local backend did not start on port 3210 within 10 seconds.
✖ Hit an error while running local deployment.
Your error has been reported to our team, and we'll be working on it.
To opt out, run `npx convex disable-local-deployments`. Then re-run your original command.

convex --version
1.21.0

convex --version
1.21.0

I was able to start the local deployment earlier (~1 month ago) when checking out Convex. Today I opened an old project, updated Convex, now can't start the local deployment. I've already tried disabling local deployments & reenabling them again. I've also tried rm -r ~/.convex/convex-backend-state/. After that, I ran npx convex dev --local --once again, maybe a couple of times. Now there are two directories:

~/workspace/humanbase % ls ~/.convex/convex-backend-state/
local-denis_gorbachev-humanbase-1       local-denis_gorbachev-humanbase_d7728

~/workspace/humanbase % ls ~/.convex/convex-backend-state/
local-denis_gorbachev-humanbase-1       local-denis_gorbachev-humanbase_d7728

How to enable the logs to see the error?

4 Replies

Convex Bot•2w ago

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Kevin07•2w ago

Hey are you currently using Node v18? I ran into the same issues with no logs, and switching to that helped!

sshader•2w ago

^^ that -- it's a regression (both hitting it if you're not using node actions, and the lack of error message) and already on its way to being fixed, but in the meantime setting your node version to v18 will probably unblock you

dengorOP•2w ago

Thank you guys 🤝 Hope it gets fixed soon since v18 is being retired on Vercel in early 2025

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