Fatal: Internal Error due to string length

[N-Upchurch]

Describe the bug

The flood service fails with:

Uncaught exception: Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters

Context

• Hardware: VPS bought online
• YunoHost version: 11.2.8.2
• I have access to my server: Through SSH | through the webadmin
• Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance?: no
• Using, or trying to install package version/branch: 4.7.0~ynh3

Logs

Dec 12 15:43:21 systemd[1]: Started Flood rTorrent Web UI.
Dec 12 15:43:25 flood[74141]: Flood server 4.7.0 starting on http://127.0.0.1:8096
Dec 12 15:43:25 flood[74141]: Starting without builtin authentication
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/ 200 7.577 ms - 992
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/css/main.91a3ca36ed1a96839319.css 200 213.830 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/main.e491eea1.js 200 155.778 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/api/auth/verify?1702395808768 200 10.506 ms - 105
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/icon_maskable_180x180.png 200 13.155 ms - 5392
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/api/settings 200 35.058 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:28 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/favicon.ico 200 43.372 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/api/client/settings 200 128.257 ms - 624
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/css/116.bc338a685eec2e79b3a6.css 200 4.390 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/90.8be17c89.chunk.js 200 3.996 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/116.0faf47ae.chunk.js 200 39.531 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/flag0.d867ac2a.chunk.js 200 9.584 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/183.afcec458.chunk.js 200 121.920 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/js/535.4bb41992.chunk.js 200 121.400 ms - -
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/media/Roboto-500.c7e17507..woff2 200 91.474 ms - 10248
Dec 12 15:43:29 flood[74141]: GET /floodz/static/media/Roboto-700.2b8c7cb1..woff2 200 100.211 ms - 10276
Dec 12 15:44:09 flood[74141]: FATAL internal error. Please open an issue.
Dec 12 15:44:09 flood[74141]: Uncaught exception: Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters
Dec 12 15:44:09 systemd[1]: flood.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 12 15:44:09 systemd[1]: flood.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 12 15:44:09 systemd[1]: flood.service: Consumed 5.917s CPU time.

[N-Upchurch]

Looks like this is due to an upstream bug from 2021. You can fix it manually like so:

sudo rm -rf /var/www/flood/db/_config/history/fiveMinSnapshot.db