setup:static-content:deploy errors

Question

When ever i run bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy it outputs the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 15 passed to Magento\Deploy\Model\Deploy\LocaleDeploy::__construct() must be of the type array, null given, called in /vagrant/project-community-edition/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php on l ine 93 and defined in /vagrant/project-community-edition/vendor/magento/module-deploy/Model/Deploy/LocaleDeploy.php:177

with the stack trace of:

0 /vagrant/project-community-edition/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php(93): Magento\Deploy\Model\Deploy\LocaleDeploy->__construct(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput), Object(Magento\Translation\Model\Js\Config), Object (Magento\Framework\View\Asset\Minification), Object(Magento\Framework\View\Asset\Repository), Object(Magento\Framework\View\Asset\RepositoryFactory), Object(Magento\RequireJs\Model\FileManagerFactory), Object(Magento\Framework\RequireJs\ConfigFactory), Object(Magento\Fra mework\App\View\Asset\Publisher), Object(Magento\Framework\View\Asset\Bundle\Manager), Object(Ma in /vagrant/project-community-edition/vendor/magento/module-deploy/Model/Deploy/LocaleDeploy.php on line 177

This is with Magento 2.1.7.

Update: I did a fresh install and it turns out if you run php bin/magento setup:di:compile before you run setup:static-content:deploy it causes the error.

Answer 1

I think there is a user permission issue on your vagrant. Try sudo php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy to see if it solves the problem.

Answer 2

If that's a fresh installation, then it is surely a permissions issue

First of all, you'd know what is the group of your webserver user (typically www-data, if you use Apache)

Then you'd add your user (the one who owns the files and folders, and the one who executes bin/magento console commands) to webserver group. A trick to make things easier is adding the webserver user to your user group too

You can find here more info about managing users & groups in Linux

And then, in your Magento root folder, run this commands (in a Linux server, which is the most common case)

find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} \;
find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} \;
sudo chown -R :<web server group> .
chmod u+x bin/magento

You can find here precise info about that