Job name "..getProjectMetadata" does not exist

Question

I updated my angular to v9 and when I try to go back in v8, I receive this error. I have already tried the following:

• uninstall -global angular/cli
• uninstall angular/cli
• go back to my last package.json
• delete node_module folder
• delete repo

This error continues to show.

My stacktrace is :

An unhandled exception occurred: Job name "..getProjectMetadata" does not exist.
See angular-errors.log for further details.

angular-errors.log :

[error] Error: Job name "..getProjectMetadata" does not exist.
    at Observable._subscribe (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/src/experimental/jobs/simple-scheduler.js:350:23)
    at Observable._trySubscribe (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/Observable.js:44:25)
    at Observable.subscribe (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/Observable.js:30:22)
    at /Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/util/subscribeTo.js:22:31
    at Object.subscribeToResult (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/util/subscribeToResult.js:10:45)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber._innerSub (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/operators/switchMap.js:65:54)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber._next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/operators/switchMap.js:55:14)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/Subscriber.js:66:18)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber.notifyNext (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/operators/switchMap.js:86:26)
    at InnerSubscriber._next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/InnerSubscriber.js:28:21)
    at InnerSubscriber.Subscriber.next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/Subscriber.js:66:18)
    at /Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/util/subscribeTo.js:17:28
    at Object.subscribeToResult (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/util/subscribeToResult.js:10:45)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber._innerSub (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/operators/switchMap.js:65:54)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber._next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/operators/switchMap.js:55:14)
    at SwitchMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (/Front/node_modules/@angular-devkit/core/node_modules/rxjs/internal/Subscriber.js:66:18)

ng --version :

Angular CLI: 8.3.18
Node: 12.15.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 8.2.13
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... language-service, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.803.18
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.900.1
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.900.1
@angular-devkit/build-webpack     0.900.1
@angular-devkit/core              8.3.18
@angular-devkit/schematics        8.3.18
@angular/cdk                      8.2.3
@angular/cli                      8.3.18
@angular/material                 8.2.3
@ngtools/webpack                  9.0.1
@schematics/angular               8.3.18
@schematics/update                0.803.18
rxjs                              6.5.3
typescript                        3.5.3
webpack                           4.41.2

Answer 1

It seems to be an issue with @angular-devkit/build-angular.. Try downgrading it to a specific version:

npm i @angular-devkit/[email protected]