Running "bundle exec jekyll serve" throws "Conversion error"

[matthiasguentert]

Hi Nicolas

First I'd like to thank you for the time and work you have put into this repository, very helpful. I have forked it and try to follow the instructions found here https://nicolas-van.github.io/bootstrap-4-github-pages/

Unfortunately when trying to host/run the website locally by issuing bundle exec jekyll serve the following error occurs:

Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error while converting 'assets/main.scss': File to import not found or unreadable: variables. Load path: C:/Ruby25-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-theme-primer-0.5.3/_sass on line 1

I haven't changed anything so far within the configuration and bundle install completes without any issues. The jekyll version I am using is jekyll 3.8.5.

Adding the full path to e.g. _sass\_variables.scss like so @import "C:/temp/myblog/_sass/variables"; fixes the issue. It seems as if jekyll cant find the files. Using relative path doesnt work.

Also adding the following to _config.yml doesn't help.

sass:
    sass_dir: _sass

How can I solve this?

[nicolas-van]

Hello,

Could you provide:

• Your OS and its version
• Your ruby version
• Your gem version
• Your bundler version

[matthiasguentert]

Sorry for not providing this information in the first place:

OS version: Windows 10 Pro 1809 x64
Ruby version: ruby 2.5.5p157 (2019-03-15 revision 67260) [x64-mingw32]
Gem version: 2.7.6.2
Bundler version: 2.0.2

[nicolas-van]

I can't reproduce this. I have similar versions compared to you except I'm on Ubuntu. And unfortunately I don't really have time to get a Windows machine to test on it.

So, sorry but I can't really help you more.

[garyritchie]

I had a very similar error after moving my site directory to a submodule. Running sh update_bootstrap.sh fixed the issue for me. I'm running Windows 10 Pro with Ubuntu under Windows Subsystem for Linux.