error after 1.1.12 -> 1.2.0 "error: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the required STATIC_URL setting."

[lifeisafractal]

Please verify that this bug has NOT been raised before.

• I checked and didn't find a similar issue

Describe the bug*

I'm trying to upgrade from 1.1.12 -> 1.2.0 and the invoke update command is failing with:

[... truncated ...]
INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.
Unknown command: 'collectplugins'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.
ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'python3 manage.py collectplugins'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

I entered the container and tried to run manage.py and got this:

root@e775518f48bc:/home/inventree# ./src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py --help
INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.

Type 'manage.py help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.

Available subcommands:

[django]
    check
    compilemessages
    createcachetable
    dbshell
    diffsettings
    dumpdata
    flush
    inspectdb
    loaddata
    makemessages
    makemigrations
    migrate
    optimizemigration
    runserver
    sendtestemail
    shell
    showmigrations
    sqlflush
    sqlmigrate
    sqlsequencereset
    squashmigrations
    startapp
    startproject
    test
    testserver
Note that only Django core commands are listed as settings are not properly configured (error: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the required STATIC_URL setting.).

I highly bet this is due to my local configuration somehow, but if it worked on 1.1.12 if feels like it should work on 1.2.0. I looked through breaking changes and didn't see anything that seemed like it'd be relevant. I'm digging more into this, but wanted to open a bug in case this is obvious to a maintainer.

This feels similar to the already closed #9592, but this might just be a similar error presentation (Django mis-configuration) with different underlying root cause.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Using docker install setup
2. Start at 1.10.0
3. Upgrade to 1.2.0
4. run docker compose run --rm inventree-server invoke update
5. Observe error

Note: It's very likely this is due to my configuration, not inherit to all InvenTree installs.

Expected behaviour

I expect to be able to upgrade to 1.2.0 from 1.1.10 or get a clearer error message with guidance on fixing the issue.

Deployment Method

Docker

Version Information

All from official docker releases:
Upgrading from 1.12.0
Upgrading to 1.2.0

I couldn't get the full version info as the server can't run right now.

Try to reproduce on the demo site

I did not try to reproduce

Is the bug reproducible on the demo site?

Not reproducible

Relevant log output

[SchrodingersGat]

Unknown command: 'collectplugins'

This indicates that the code is running outside of the proper environment context. Not sure how this could happen in the docker setup. Are you running the "canonical" docker install?

Note: It's very likely this is due to my configuration, not inherit to all InvenTree installs.

What makes you suspect this?

[lifeisafractal]

Thanks for the quick reply! I started using Invetree back around version 0.12 so my configs have got a little crusty. I was holding on to the nginx config for a while as I couldn't get Caddy configured properly for my setup. I'm working on "re-cononicalizing" my setup before pushing any further. I'll report back after I've either fixed it, or still am hitting issues with a "canonical" setup.

Side note, the immediate error around the staticfiles/STATUC_URL seems to be getting triggered by setting a custom site icon. This might be a red herring for a deeper issue however.

[lifeisafractal]

Okay, I got up to 1.2.0 by re-creating my whole docker setup from the current upstream (.env, Caddyfile, docker-compose.yaml). I'm now successfully on Caddy too.

When I do set the INVENTREE_CUSTOM_LOGO env var things break. See otuput below. This seems similar to my original issue.

Also, I was able to reproduce this by creating a completely fresh test instance. The act of setting INVENTREE_CUSTOM_LOGO breaks with the same error below as with my production data. Maybe I'm missing setting up a path somewhere in the configs or maybe this is a more systemic thing, not sure how many people are setting the custom logo.

inventree-server  | Traceback (most recent call last):
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/bin/gunicorn", line 8, in <module>
inventree-server  |     sys.exit(run())
inventree-server  |              ^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 66, in run
inventree-server  |     WSGIApplication("%(prog)s [OPTIONS] [APP_MODULE]", prog=prog).run()
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 235, in run
inventree-server  |     super().run()
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 71, in run
inventree-server  |     Arbiter(self).run()
inventree-server  |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 63, in __init__
inventree-server  |     self.setup(app)
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 128, in setup
inventree-server  |     self.app.wsgi()
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 66, in wsgi
inventree-server  |     self.callable = self.load()
inventree-server  |                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 57, in load
inventree-server  |     return self.load_wsgiapp()
inventree-server  |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 47, in load_wsgiapp
inventree-server  |     return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
inventree-server  |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 377, in import_app
inventree-server  |     mod = importlib.import_module(module)
inventree-server  |           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
inventree-server  |     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
inventree-server  |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
inventree-server  |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/wsgi.py", line 19, in <module>
inventree-server  |     application = get_wsgi_application()  # pragma: no cover
inventree-server  |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application
inventree-server  |     django.setup(set_prefix=False)
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 19, in setup
inventree-server  |     configure_logging(settings.LOGGING_CONFIG, settings.LOGGING)
inventree-server  |                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 81, in __getattr__
inventree-server  |     self._setup(name)
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 68, in _setup
inventree-server  |     self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
inventree-server  |                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 166, in __init__
inventree-server  |     mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
inventree-server  |           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
inventree-server  |     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
inventree-server  |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
inventree-server  |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
inventree-server  |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py", line 1456, in <module>
inventree-server  |     CUSTOM_LOGO = get_custom_file(
inventree-server  |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/config.py", line 521, in get_custom_file
inventree-server  |     static_storage = StaticFilesStorage()
inventree-server  |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 29, in __init__
inventree-server  |     check_settings(base_url)
inventree-server  |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 49, in check_settings
inventree-server  |     raise ImproperlyConfigured(
inventree-server  | django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the required STATIC_URL setting.
inventree-worker  | INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.
inventree-worker  | Unknown command: 'wait_for_db'
inventree-worker  | Type 'manage.py help' for usage.
inventree-server exited with code 1 (restarting)

[SchrodingersGat]

I have tried to break my setup in a similar way - but have not been able to.

Are there any other custom config settings you are running here?

[LastEdit]

I just tried updating from 1.1.12 to 1.2.1 and received the same error mentioned in the beginning of the post

Unknown command: 'collectplugins'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.
ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'python3 manage.py collectplugins'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

[SchrodingersGat]

@LastEdit can you please include the full error message / logs

Also, do you have any custom logo or splash image configured?

[lifeisafractal]

I was able to repro this with a clean setup on v1.2.1. Repro steps below. Also, here is a link to a tgz with all the files and the volumes all configured in the error state.

This is mostly following the
Docker install docs here

Here are the steps:

• Start with a clean dir on a Linux system with docker 29.2.1
• From the 1.2.1 tag, copy the following files into the dir
  • contrib/container/.env
  • contrib/container/Caddyfile
  • contrib/container/docker-compose.yml
• Pin to InvenTree 1.2.1 release in .env

INVENTREE_TAG=1.2.1

• Do initial docker pull

docker compose pull

• Do initial DB setup and create admin user

# DB setup
docker compose run --rm inventree-server invoke update
# Create admin user (user: foobar, email: foo@bar.com, password: bizbaz)
docker compose run inventree-server invoke superuser

• Start and confirm we can login

docker compose up
# Login to `http://inventree.localhost` in a browser with above credentials
# This does work
# Terminate with `ctrl-c` and wait for containers to gracefully shut down

• Append to .env to set a logo file.

# Set a custom logo file
INVENTREE_CUSTOM_LOGO=img/custom_logo.png

Note: Putting an actual file in inventree-data/static/img/custom_logo.png or not doesn't affect
the failure behaivor.

• Bring the containers back up

docker compose up

• Observe error that comes out over and over from inventree-server and inventree-worker

inventree-server           | Loading config file : /home/inventree/data/config.yaml
inventree-worker exited with code 1 (restarting)
inventree-server           | INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.
inventree-worker           | Loading config file : /home/inventree/data/config.yaml
inventree-server           | Traceback (most recent call last):
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/bin/gunicorn", line 8, in <module>
inventree-server           |     sys.exit(run())
inventree-server           |              ^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 66, in run
inventree-server           |     WSGIApplication("%(prog)s [OPTIONS] [APP_MODULE]", prog=prog).run()
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 235, in run
inventree-server           |     super().run()
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 71, in run
inventree-server           |     Arbiter(self).run()
inventree-server           |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 63, in __init__
inventree-server           |     self.setup(app)
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 128, in setup
inventree-server           |     self.app.wsgi()
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 66, in wsgi
inventree-server           |     self.callable = self.load()
inventree-server           |                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 57, in load
inventree-server           |     return self.load_wsgiapp()
inventree-server           |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 47, in load_wsgiapp
inventree-server           |     return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
inventree-server           |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 377, in import_app
inventree-server           |     mod = importlib.import_module(module)
inventree-server           |           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
inventree-server           |     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
inventree-server           |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
inventree-server           |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/wsgi.py", line 19, in <module>
inventree-server           |     application = get_wsgi_application()  # pragma: no cover
inventree-server           |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application
inventree-server           |     django.setup(set_prefix=False)
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 19, in setup
inventree-server           |     configure_logging(settings.LOGGING_CONFIG, settings.LOGGING)
inventree-server           |                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 81, in __getattr__
inventree-server           |     self._setup(name)
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 68, in _setup
inventree-server           |     self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
inventree-server           |                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 166, in __init__
inventree-server           |     mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
inventree-server           |           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
inventree-server           |     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
inventree-server           |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
inventree-server           |   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
inventree-server           |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py", line 1456, in <module>
inventree-server           |     CUSTOM_LOGO = get_custom_file(
inventree-server           |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/config.py", line 521, in get_custom_file
inventree-server           |     static_storage = StaticFilesStorage()
inventree-server           |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 29, in __init__
inventree-server           |     check_settings(base_url)
inventree-server           |   File "/root/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 49, in check_settings
inventree-server           |     raise ImproperlyConfigured(
inventree-server           | django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the required STATIC_URL setting.
inventree-worker           | Waiting for database connection...
inventree-server exited with code 1 (restarting)
inventree-worker           | INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.
inventree-worker           | Unknown command: 'wait_for_db'
inventree-worker           | Type 'manage.py help' for usage.
inventree-worker           | ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'python3 manage.py wait_for_db'
inventree-worker           | - Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information
inventree-worker exited with code 1 (restarting)

• Also note this error when trying to interact with manage.py

# Start with all containers down
# get a shell into the server container
docker compose run inventree-server /bin/bash

# Run `manage.py`
./src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py --help
# Get the following output. Note this doesn't happen without setting custom logo
INVE-W3: Could not detect git information.

Type 'manage.py help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.

Available subcommands:

[django]
    check
    compilemessages
    createcachetable
    dbshell
    diffsettings
    dumpdata
    flush
    inspectdb
    loaddata
    makemessages
    makemigrations
    migrate
    optimizemigration
    runserver
    sendtestemail
    shell
    showmigrations
    sqlflush
    sqlmigrate
    sqlsequencereset
    squashmigrations
    startapp
    startproject
    test
    testserver
Note that only Django core commands are listed as settings are not properly configured (error: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the required STATIC_URL setting.).

[LastEdit]

@LastEdit can you please include the full error message / logs

Also, do you have any custom logo or splash image configured?

I do have a custom splash configured. At some point it stopped working around the new UI, but I never removed the env variable. I think it is probably the exact same issue as @lifeisafractal has been able to recreate.

Edit: I retried the update without the INVENTREE_CUSTOM_LOGO= and was able to complete it, so thank you for pointing out where the issue was coming from.