Build fails: (Unexpected token <)

[caraya]

I'm getting different errors when trying to build a site using grunt-assemble 0.4.0

When I run grunt --foce --verbose I get the following errors:

Building pages...
Warning: Source files not found. Used --force, continuing.
Information compiled

. . .

Assembling pages...
>> 0 pages assembled.

Step 17 assembled.
Calling step 18

Step 18 assembled.
Build completed. Returning

Done, but with warnings.

but when I just run grunt with a default target of assemble I get:

[18:13:40] carlos@rivendell new-site 1478$ grunt
Running "assemble:layout" (assemble) task
Warning: Unable to parse "./templates/layouts/default-layout.hbs" file (Unexpected token <). Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

Why am I getting different errors? I would expect that if grunt-assemble cannot find the source files it'll tell me before failing to build the pages.

What does the unexpected token warning mean? Is this a grunt-assemble issue or a handlebars one?
I'm inclined to think it's a grunt-assemble issue because I've tried to build content from the templates using http://tryhandlebarsjs.com/ and it build successfully.

Just in case it helps, here is the dev-dependencies from my package.json:

  "devDependencies": {
    "assemble-core": "^0.11.2",
    "babel": "^6.5.1",
    "grunt": "^0.4.5",
    "grunt-assemble": "^0.4.0",
    "grunt-autoprefixer": "^3.0.3",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "^0.7.0",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "^0.8.2",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "^0.12.0",
    "grunt-contrib-sass": "^0.9.2",
    "grunt-jscs": "^2.7.0",
    "grunt-scss-lint": "^0.3.8",
    "jshint-stylish": "^2.1.0",
    "load-grunt-tasks": "^3.4.0",
    "time-grunt": "^1.3.0"
  }

and the task from my Gruntfile (commented as I've been swapping things in and out to see if they work or not)

      assemble: {
        options: {
          marked: {
            breaks: false,
            gfm: true,
            highlight: function (lang, code) {
              return hljs.highlightAuto(lang, code).value;
            },
            sanitize: false,
            silent: false,
            smartLists: false,
            smartypants: false,
            tables: true
          }
        },
//        assets: 'assets/',
//        data:   'data/',
        layout: 'templates/layouts/default-layout.hbs',
        partials: 'templates/layouts/partials/**/*.hbs'
      },
      projects: {
//        options: {
//          layout: 'templates/layout/project-layout.hbs',
//          partials: 'templates/layout/partials/**/*.hbs'
//        },
        files: {
          src: [ 'src/projects/*.md ' ],
          dest: [ 'dist/projects' ]//,
//          expand: true
        }
      },
      posts: {
//        options: {
//          layout: 'templates/layout/project-posts.hbs',
//          partials: 'templates/layout/partials/**/*.hbs'
//        },
        files: {
          src: [ 'src/posts/*.md ' ],
          dest: [ 'dist/posts' ]//,
//          expand: true
        }
      }

[assemblebot]

@caraya Thanks for the issue! If you're reporting a bug, please be sure to include:

• The version of assemble you are using.
• Your assemblefile.js (This can be in a gist)
• The commandline output. (Screenshot or gist is fine)
• What you expected to happen instead.

[doowb]

It looks like you have a typo in the configuration. The layout and partials properties should be inside the options block next to marked. I think there's an extra } someplace and grunt is trying to run it like a target... see in the output where it says assemble:layout... you should only see assemble:projects and assemble:posts.

[doowb]

Closing due to age and no response from OP. If you're still having an issue, please feel free to reopen with more details.