I’m currently preparing an Octopus upgrade for our company, making a leap from version 3.11.13 to 2018.4.2. To do so, we duplicated the VM which holds our current Octopus server and upgraded that, after removing all target machines and environments besides a test bed. Upgrading went smoothly and everything seems to be fine; the deployment to the test bed works great and I’m already liking the new UI.
However, when I go to the new (for us) Settings tab of the Configuration page, I get the following error:
The “full exception” is as follows:
Octopus v2018.4.2
An error occurred during the activation of a particular registration. See the inner exception for details. Registration: Activator = ConfigurationSectionListResponder (DelegateActivator), Services = [Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionListResponder], Lifetime = Autofac.Core.Lifetime.CurrentScopeLifetime, Sharing = None, Ownership = ExternallyOwned —> An error occurred during the activation of a particular registration. See the inner exception for details. Registration: Activator = ConfigurationSectionListResponder (ReflectionActivator), Services = [Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionListResponder], Lifetime = Autofac.Core.Lifetime.CurrentScopeLifetime, Sharing = None, Ownership = OwnedByLifetimeScope —> An exception was thrown while invoking the constructor 'Void .ctor(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable
1[Octopus.Node.Extensibility.Extensions.Infrastructure.Configuration.IHasConfigurationSettingsResource], Octopus.Server.Web.Routes.ApiRoutes)' on type 'ConfigurationSectionListResponder'. ---> Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (See inner exception for details.) (See inner exception for details.) (See inner exception for details.) Autofac.Core.DependencyResolutionException at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Activate(IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Execute()
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.ResolveOperation.GetOrCreateInstance(ISharingLifetimeScope currentOperationScope, IComponentRegistration registration, IEnumerable1 parameters) at Autofac.Core.Resolving.ResolveOperation.Execute(IComponentRegistration registration, IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Autofac.ResolutionExtensions.TryResolveService(IComponentContext context, Service service, IEnumerable1 parameters, Object& instance) at Autofac.ResolutionExtensions.ResolveService(IComponentContext context, Service service, IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Octopus.Server.Web.Infrastructure.OctopusNancyModule.<>c__DisplayClass14_0.<get_Routes>b__1(Object x)
at Nancy.Routing.Route.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__3(Object parameters, CancellationToken context)–Inner Exception–
An error occurred during the activation of a particular registration. See the inner exception for details. Registration: Activator = ConfigurationSectionListResponder (ReflectionActivator), Services = [Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionListResponder], Lifetime = Autofac.Core.Lifetime.CurrentScopeLifetime, Sharing = None, Ownership = OwnedByLifetimeScope —> An exception was thrown while invoking the constructor 'Void .ctor(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1[Octopus.Node.Extensibility.Extensions.Infrastructure.Configuration.IHasConfigurationSettingsResource], Octopus.Server.Web.Routes.ApiRoutes)' on type 'ConfigurationSectionListResponder'. ---> Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (See inner exception for details.) (See inner exception for details.) Autofac.Core.DependencyResolutionException at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Activate(IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Execute()
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.ResolveOperation.GetOrCreateInstance(ISharingLifetimeScope currentOperationScope, IComponentRegistration registration, IEnumerable1 parameters) at Autofac.Core.Activators.Delegate.DelegateActivator.ActivateInstance(IComponentContext context, IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Activate(IEnumerable`1 parameters)–Inner Exception–
An exception was thrown while invoking the constructor 'Void .ctor(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1[Octopus.Node.Extensibility.Extensions.Infrastructure.Configuration.IHasConfigurationSettingsResource], Octopus.Server.Web.Routes.ApiRoutes)' on type 'ConfigurationSectionListResponder'. ---> Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (See inner exception for details.) Autofac.Core.DependencyResolutionException at Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection.ConstructorParameterBinding.Instantiate() at Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection.ReflectionActivator.ActivateInstance(IComponentContext context, IEnumerable1 parameters)
at Autofac.Core.Resolving.InstanceLookup.Activate(IEnumerable`1 parameters)–Inner Exception–
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException
at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionMetadata…ctor(String id, String name, String description)
at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigHelper.<>c.<.ctor>b__3_0(IHasConfigurationSettingsResource c)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator2.MoveNext() at System.Linq.Buffer1…ctor(IEnumerable1 source) at System.Linq.OrderedEnumerable1.GetEnumerator
at System.Collections.Generic.List1..ctor(IEnumerable1 collection)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable1 source) at Octopus.Server.Web.Api.Actions.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionListResponder..ctor(IEnumerable1 configurations, ApiRoutes apiRoutes)
at lambda_method(Closure , Object )
at Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection.ConstructorParameterBinding.Instantiate()
I’m assuming that this is either A: some issue with upgrading over such a large number of versions, or B: a problem with having the two versions of Octopus live and using the same license at the same time, but I’m not sure how to resolve this. It doesn’t seem to actually impact the functionality of deployments besides not letting us view settings in this window. Any insight into the matter would be much appreciated.