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Update: I fixed it by changing all the try catch block errors to be explicitly cast as type 'any' instead of 'unknown'.

try
..
catch(error)

becomes

try
..
catch(error:any)

Although I'm not sure if this is the right approach, I'm not an expert in typescript. I think they changed something in typescript 4 that is requiring explicit type specification of try catch error: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-4/#use-unknown-catch-variables

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Hi, would replacing :any with :Error work too? What commit did you use? I'm currently fixing some issues related to dfx 0.8.1 as well.

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@spencerbug are you still having this issue?

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@nmattia replacing :any with :Error doesn't work. I'll make a pull request from fork.
I'm not familiar with all of dfinity's processes for pull requests, I assume there are tests that need to run, maybe let me know what I need to do. Glad to help.
catch(error) defaults to type "unknown" which can't be treated as strings, for printing, unless they are typecast to something more specific.
Here: #476

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Fixed in #476

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Thanks @spencerbug !

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