Problem with GotoSocial yaml

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What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.0.17
What app is this about: GotoSocial

Describe your issue

Hello,

This morning I noticed someone trying to sign up to my instrance, which has always been closed before. I went into settings and say registrations were open, so I changed the setting here to prevent new sign ups and then saved (without changing anything else).

The instance then stopped working and the logs state

journalctl

Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result ā€˜exit-codeā€™.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: Failed to start gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.

and /var/log/gotosocial/gotosocial.log

2025/06/25 21:16:08 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key

Iā€™ve tried turning registrations back to true, restarted, then back to false and restarted but no joy.

I did check the yaml file and couldnā€™t see anything at line 33 that looked off but Iā€™m not a code personā€¦ Also the yaml states at the top that it really should be done in the user interafce. Iā€™ve rebooted the server and repeated the steps laid out but Iā€™m going round in circles and donā€™t want to cause further damage!

Any help very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Share relevant logs or error messages

journalctl

Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:13:13 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:13:14 systemd[1]: Failed to start gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:05 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:16:05 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:16:06 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Starting gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server...
Jun 25 21:16:07 systemd[1]: Started gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: Stopped gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: gotosocial.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 25 21:16:08 systemd[1]: Failed to start gotosocial.service - GoToSocial Server.

/var/log/gotosocial/gotosocial.log

2025/06/25 21:05:43 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:05:43 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:05:44 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:05:44 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:13:11 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:13:12 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:13:13 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:13:13 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:13:14 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:16:06 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:16:06 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:16:07 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:16:07 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
2025/06/25 21:16:08 error executing command: error reloading config: While parsing config: yaml: line 33: did not find expected key
1 Like
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Hello @mxtthxw
Whatā€™s the output of sed -n '33p' /var/www/gotosocial/config.yaml ?

3

Here is the default config file gotosocial_ynh/conf/config.yaml at master Ā· YunoHost-Apps/gotosocial_ynh Ā· GitHub

Can you share the first 40 lines of the file? There should be nothing sensitive unless it has been modified, so just replace it with xxxx.

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Hello, thanks for getting backā€¦ Hereā€™s what the yaml says.

# āš  IMPORTANT WARNING: do NOT edit this config file by hand, 
# else your modifications will be ERASED at each update of the GTS package! 
# Instead, use the config panel in your web admin interface: 
# Applications āž” GoToSocial āž” Config panel āž” do your config edit āž” Save 
# Most of the relevant settings are available in the config panel, if you're 
# missing one, open an issue: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/gotosocial_ynh/issues 

--- 

# GoToSocial 
# Copyright (C) GoToSocial Authors admin@gotosocial.org 
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later 
# 
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by 
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 
# (at your option) any later version. 
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details. 
# 
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License 
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 

########################### 
##### GENERAL CONFIG ###### 
########################### 

# String. Log level to use throughout the application. Must be lower-case. 
# Options: ["trace","debug","info","warn","error","fatal"] 
# Default: "info" 
log-level: "info" 

# Bool. Log database queries when log-level is set to debug or trace. 
# This setting produces verbose logs, so it's better to only enable it 
# when you're trying to track an issue down. 
# Options: [true, false] 
# Default: false 
log-db-queries: false 

# Bool. Include the client IP in the emitted log lines 
# Options: [true, false] 
# Default: true 
log-client-ip: true 

# String. Format to use for the timestamp in log lines. 
# If set to the empty string, the timestamp will be 
# ommitted from the logs entirely. 
# 
# The format must be compatible with Go's time.Layout, as 
# documented on https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants. 
# 
# Examples: ["2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00", ""] 
# Default: "02/01/2006 15:04:05.000" 
log-timestamp-format: "02/01/2006 15:04:05.000" 

# String. Application name to use internally. 
# Examples: ["My Application","gotosocial"] 
# Default: "gotosocial" 
application-name: "gotosocial" 

# String. The user that will be shown instead of the landing page. if no user is set, the landing page will be shown. 
# Examples: "admin" 
# Default: "" 
landing-page-user: "" 

# String. Hostname that this server will be reachable at. Defaults to localhost for local testing, 
# but you should *definitely* change this when running for real, or your server won't work at all. 
# DO NOT change this after your server has already run once, or you will break things! 
# Examples: ["gts.example.org","some.server.com"] 
# Default: "localhost" 
host: "gts.example.org"
5

You didnā€™t mention the version of GoToSocial you have

6

Sorry itā€™s 0.19.1~ynh1

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@mxtthxw

In the config.yaml, check the instance-languages line looking for a missing opening bracketā€¦
It should follow this pattern instance-languages: ["nl", "en-gb", "fr"] or `instance-languages: [ ]
etc.
In the web admin config panel of gotosocial, the opening bracket before the list of languages must be left. If removed, the config file is no longer valid. And instance-languages indeed corresponds to the interpreted line 33ā€¦

8

Yay!!!

Now hereā€™s the interesting thingā€¦ When I do this in the user interface, each time after saving it removes the first " in the ā€œen-gbā€ no idea why but it repeatedly does it. However, doing this in the yaml has resolved the issue!

Super massive thanks!!!

9

So itā€™s a bug in the webadmin config panel

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10

Yes. Hereā€™s the default value :
image
And there seem to be several bugs. When I tried to change the language settings in the config panel, it first reported an error with the SMTP ā€˜fromā€™ address. When smtp from address seems ok, it says it cannot write changes to a settings.yml file that indeed does not exist in /var/www/ (a confusion between settings.yml and config.yaml in the script ?).

2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + for short_setting in "${!old[@]}"
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + ynh_app_config_apply_one instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + _ynh_app_config_apply_one instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + local short_setting=instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + local setter=set__instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + local bind=instance-languages:/var/www/gotosocial/config.yaml
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + local type=string
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + '[' true == true ']'
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + grep -q '^function$'
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + type -t set__instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + set__instance_languages
2025-06-26 12:26:03,118: DEBUG - + ynh_app_setting_set --key=instance_languages '--value="nl", "en-gb", "fr"'
2025-06-26 12:26:03,230: DEBUG - + ynh_write_var_in_file --file=/var/www/gotosocial/settings.yml --key=instance-languages '--value=["nl", "en-gb", "fr"]'
2025-06-26 12:26:03,348: DEBUG - + after=
2025-06-26 12:26:03,348: DEBUG - + [[ -f /var/www/gotosocial/settings.yml ]]
2025-06-26 12:26:03,348: DEBUG - + ynh_die 'File /var/www/gotosocial/settings.yml does not exists'
2025-06-26 12:26:03,415: WARNING - File /var/www/gotosocial/settings.yml does not exists