Need help with first Hugo site

[janezhgw]

I need advice to debug deploy Netlify App

I am getting an exit status 128.

I thought it might’ve been a theme issue, so I made a new Hugo site and installed a different theme. I updated the “baseurl” and had the theme installed from gitmodule. I revoked Netlify access and reauthorized. Nothing has worked based on existing advice in the forums.

The site works locally when I test it with ‘hugo server’. So the issue should be retrieving it from GitLab.

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11:15:04 PM: Build ready to start

11:15:06 PM: build-image version: b0258b965567defc4a2d7e2f2dec2e00c8f73ad6

11:15:06 PM: build-image tag: v3.4.1

11:15:06 PM: buildbot version: c6376102eedf4be6c6e5d685c7141e2eb612d47d

11:15:06 PM: Fetching cached dependencies

11:15:06 PM: Failed to fetch cache, continuing with build

11:15:06 PM: Starting to prepare the repo for build

11:15:08 PM: No cached dependencies found. Cloning fresh repo

11:15:08 PM: git clone git@gitlab.com:janezhgw/oct620-2

11:15:09 PM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master

11:15:10 PM: Error checking out submodules: fatal: No url found for submodule path ‘themes/hugo-hero-theme’ in .gitmodules

11:15:10 PM: Failing build: Failed to prepare repo

11:15:10 PM: Failed during stage ‘preparing repo’: Error checking out submodules: fatal: No url found for submodule path ‘themes/hugo-hero-theme’ in .gitmodules
: exit status 128

11:15:10 PM: Finished processing build request in 3.895407933s

[jen]

Hey @janezhgw and welcome to the forum!

Have you checked out this guide on Hugo + Netlify?

[Support Guide] Why isn’t my Hugo theme working correctly with Netlify?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support: September 2023 We get this question often. Luckily, there is both a common root cause for this issue and a solution for it! Most often, Hugo themes added using git clone to clone the theme’s repository into your existing Hugo site’s codebase will not work with Netlify. This is the common root cause I mentioned. So, what is the solution, you ask? Use the git submodule command instead! The Hugo team created fantastic (and detailed) documentation about this her…

There’s also a suggestion here that has helped a few folks:

Error building a site in hugo (.gitmodules)

Hello @mcdragon I had a similar issue a few weeks ago. Not sure if this will help. But, I had to go into the .git directory and open up the config file that was there. I noticed that though i had a “submodule” with name “X” in the .gitmodules file, i also had a reference of the same name in the .git --> config file. It was a difference purpose, I forget what it was. I removed that reference (as well as a few other bad references i had somehow created), and things worked perfectly for me. H…

If those don’t help, please let us know and we’ll dig in further!

[janezhgw]

Hi Jen,

Thanks so much for responding. I ended up using Forestry as a workaround and managed to get the site deployed!

Thank you.