stylus compiling bug "Cannot read property 'nodes' of undefined"

A bug occured today when compling my stylus file.

the error information is listed as followed.

 > 67|               background url(/img/loading.gif) center center no-repeat

Cannot read property 'nodes' of undefined

>>     at ".list_img" (public/stylus/components.styl:61)

According to the questions on github and stack overflow, there are two solutions work.

1.update stylus

using > npm install stylus

but it doesn't work on my project.

2.set cache to false.

At first I didn't get what it means and closed the cache of my browser, but it doesn't work, too.

So I had a try to set to the options of stylus, and it finally worked.

stylus: {
            compile: {
                options: {
                    urlfunc: 'embedurl',
                    compress: false,
                    cache: false
                },

...

}