Infinite digest loop occurring on first run of app when running grunt server

[jaredwilli]

I tried to update my app to use 1.3.6 but when I do for some reason an infinite digest loop happens when I run grunt server and the app opens in the browser. It appears to redirect in the url bar over and over before it shows anything until finally it shows the page. Looking at the console I can see there are several errors for this.

Error: [$rootScope:infdig] 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!
Watchers fired in the last 5 iterations: []
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.6/$rootScope/infdig?p0=10&p1=%5B%5D
    at http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:63:12
    at Scope.$digest (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:14233:19)
    at Scope.$apply (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:14457:24)
    at bootstrapApply (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:1441:15)
    at Object.invoke (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:4169:17)
    at doBootstrap (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:1439:14)
    at bootstrap (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:1459:12)
    at angularInit (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:1353:5)
    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/angular/angular.js:25995:5)
    at fire (http://localhost:9003/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js:3073:30)

When I refresh the page though, it doesn't happen. Only on the first run of the app.

The last version of angular that it doesn't do this in is 1.3.3.

[jaredwilli]

Could be related to this issue angular-ui/ui-router#1616

[caitp]

ping @petebacondarwin

[caitp]

tentatively moving this to 1.3.8 but I don't expect it will be fixed immediately --- I think this is a duplicate issue too, lemme find the other

[petebacondarwin]

@jared will can you create a reproduction to demonstrate this?

[jaredwilli]

@petebacondarwin I have been trying to but unsuccessfully so far.

[petebacondarwin]

I suspect it is related to the $location rewriting of the path. What is you $location config? Are you using HTML5Mode?

[m3kka]

I think that my issue is somehow related #10405

The problem seems to involve the way $location deals with hashbang URLs.

[jaredwilli]

I am not using HTML5Mode no.