No styles displayed and no .tmp folder on grunt build, "Destination not written... minified CSS was empty."

[matt-mcdaniel]

I'm running a Virtual Node Server hosted through Digital Ocean on an Ubuntu machine.

I have a pretty standard yo angular install. I admittedly uninstalled karma, but otherwise it's clean.

When I run grunt, I get the following error, presumably as a part of the build task:

Running "cssmin:generated" (cssmin) task
>> Destination not written because minified CSS was empty.

I found a similar issue on generator-webapp (#211) where the problem was ensuring ruby, sass, and compass were correctly installed on the machine. I have checked the versions for the three ruby -v, compass -v and sudo compass version (compass requires permission for sudo compass version). They all seem to be installed fine, although running

In my gem list I have:

compass (1.0.1, 0.12.2)
sass (3.4.9, 3.2.12)

ruby -v outputs ruby 1.9.3p484, so it appears all three are installed correctly.

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The problem appears to be related to the fact that no .tmp directory exists in server/dist.

The styles directory exists in server/dist, but there is no .tmp folder. I manually created a .tmp folder, but it was deleted after running grunt. Could this be the problem?

Any help is appreciated.

[eddiemonge]

Why does sudo compass version require sudo?

.tmp won't be in server/dist. It is in your project's root folder.

Try asking this on stackoverflow as well.

[eddiemonge]

closing due to inactivity. if it is still a (repeat-able) bug then I'll reopen and investigate further

[bramcordie]

I bumped into a similar problem but I'm not using sass. The concurrent:dist task that copies the main.css file, running in parallel was not ready before minification started. Adding the copy:styles content to the copy:dist command fixed the problem for me.