I have an exported project file that was generated by another development team from Octopus 2018.4.4, which I am trying to test locally for QA purposes (the file will be distributed to a network of developers). I’ve installed 2018.6.1, initially in a VM and now on my local box. To verify my installation, I created a small project; exported it with octo.exe; deleted the project; reimported it; and ran the deployment successfully. In both the VM and localhost I get the output below, and I have not been able to find anyone reporting a similar problem - leaving me with no clue what the problem might be. I should note that I have setup the same Environments, NuGet feed, and Step Templates as the team that developed this project. Any advice on how to further troubleshoot this would be much appreciated.
Octopus Deploy Command Line Tool, version 4.37.0
Handshaking with Octopus server: http://localhost:85
Handshake successful. Octopus version: 2018.6.1; API version: 3.0.0
Authenticated as: xyz <xyz@example.org>
Finding importer 'project'
Validating the import
Export file successfully loaded
Checking that lifecycle Default Lifecycle exists
Found lifecycle 'Default Lifecycle'
Checking that all environments exist
Checking that all machines exist
Checking that all NuGet Feeds exist
Checking that all Action Templates exist
Checking that all Library Variable Sets exist
Checking that the Project Group exist
Checking that all channel lifecycles exist
Checking that all worker pools exist
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Octopus.Cli.Importers.ProjectImporter.<CheckWorkerPoolsExist>d__30.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd(Task task)
at Octopus.Cli.Importers.ProjectImporter.<Validate>d__12.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Octopus.Cli.Commands.ImportCommand.<Execute>d__18.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd(Task task)
at Octopus.Cli.Commands.ApiCommand.<Execute>d__36.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Octopus.Cli.CliProgram.Run(String[] args)
Exit code: -3