[Bug] GPM keeps generating snippet files in wrong location

[hugopeek]

Triple checked all the file paths and system settings, even did a fresh install, but static snippet files keep popping up under the default MODX core/components folder:

This results in the snippets not firing in some cases, but not all. Very, very strange.. Error log is silent.

[hugopeek]

The snippet files in these wrong locations are empty btw..

[theboxer]

This is cache problem, system settings cache is not cleared properly during the installation (before it gets to installing elements) and MODX can't resolve formblocks.core_path.

You can clear cache manually (I would recommend deletion of everything under core/cache) and then update package via gpm.

I didn't spot this problem for a while, so you may have something different in your env around permissions...

[hugopeek]

Thanks. I made sure I cleared the cache.. Even did a fresh install, but ended up at the same point. I isolated the problem now though, but I don't know where to look for an answer.. It is as follows: there is a Layout template in ContentBlocks, containing the snippet call of the fbStripAsAlias snippet:

<fieldset id="[[+legend:fbStripAsAlias]]" [[!cbGetFieldContent:contains=`"[[+legend:fbStripAsAlias]]"`:then=`class="collapse"`? &field=`[[++formblocks.cb_field_select_option_collapse_id]]` &returnAsJSON=`1`]]>
    <legend>[[+legend]]</legend>
    [[+main]]
</fieldset>

When I change the snippet back to being non-static, the snippet works. When I change the snippet to being static, in a different location than GPM, and without the [[++formblocks.core_path]] in the path field, the snippet works. But when I change the path to [[++formblocks.core_path]]elements/snippets/fbstripasalias.snippet.php, the snippet fails.. Probably because it can't find the contents of the file, since the generated files in MODX core/components are empty. In MODX, the snippet is referenced correctly, and the code is shown: