The Hugo theme template partial google-news has been deprecated for quite some time. A warning message has been posted on build for just that very reason.
After the last update of Hugo v0.111.2+extended the partial appears causes Hugo to fail while building.
This is the error thrown on my Mac:
❯ hugo
Start building sites …
hugo v0.111.2+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown
ERROR 2023/03/07 23:21:02 render of "page" failed: "/Users/mark/websites/markbtomlinson.com/themes/PaperMod/layouts/_default/baseof.html:5:8": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:5:8: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "head.html" .>: error calling partial: execute of template failed: html/template:partials/head.html:162:18: no such template "_internal/google_news.html"
I had been expecting an error, or problem, eventually and as is normal, it happened late at night. It took me a little file search in VSC to find the file in the Hugo theme directory and delete the line causing the issue.
I am using the PaperMod theme and the file is located below and the partial is on line 164:
themes > PaperMod > layouts > partials > head.html
{{- template "_internal/google_news.html" . }}
Deleting that line, commenting it out doesn’t work as it is Hugo shortcode not html, and the site built once more.
I hope this helps someone out with the same issue.
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