After upgrading, why isn't my Meteor app starting anymore? - meteor

Question

In order to update all the meteor packages in my app, I feed in the command meteor update --all-packages. Many packages seem to now be updated to their latest versions, BUT now when I try to start my app using meteor --port 8000, the firing up of the app seems to stall in the Starting your app / process indefinitely ...meaning my app never actually fires up anymore!
Find below an image illustrating my experience:
Does anyone know why this is happening and perhaps provide a solution to the issue? Looking forward to your help!
Find below further details.
Following is the reaction after I fed in: meteor update --all-packages
Changes to your project's package version selections from updating the release:
accounts-base upgraded from 1.3.1 to 1.4.3
accounts-facebook upgraded from 1.2.1 to 1.3.2
accounts-google upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.3.2
accounts-oauth upgraded from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16
accounts-password upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1
accounts-ui upgraded from 1.1.9 to 1.3.1
accounts-ui-unstyled upgraded from 1.2.1 to 1.4.1
allow-deny upgraded from 1.0.6 to 1.1.0
autoupdate upgraded from 1.3.12 to 1.5.0
babel-compiler* upgraded from 6.19.4 to 7.2.0
babel-runtime upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.3.0
base64 upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.0.11
binary-heap upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.0.11
blaze upgraded from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3
boilerplate-generator upgraded from 1.1.1 to 1.6.0
caching-compiler upgraded from 1.1.9 to 1.2.0
callback-hook upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.1.0
check upgraded from 1.2.5 to 1.3.1
coffeescript downgraded from 1.12.6_1 to 1.0.17
ddp upgraded from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0
ddp-client upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.3.3
ddp-common upgraded from 1.2.9 to 1.4.0
ddp-server upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.2.0
diff-sequence upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.1.0
dynamic-import upgraded from 0.1.1 to 0.5.0
ecmascript upgraded from 0.8.2 to 0.12.0
ecmascript-runtime upgraded from 0.4.1 to 0.7.0
ecmascript-runtime-client upgraded from 0.4.3 to 0.8.0
ecmascript-runtime-server upgraded from 0.4.1 to 0.7.1
ejson upgraded from 1.0.13 to 1.1.0
es5-shim upgraded from 4.6.15 to 4.8.0
facebook-config-ui upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
facebook-oauth upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.5.0
fastclick removed from your project
fetch added, version 0.1.0
google-config-ui upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
google-oauth upgraded from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6
http upgraded from 1.2.12 to 1.4.1
id-map upgraded from 1.0.9 to 1.1.0
inter-process-messaging added, version 0.1.0
less upgraded from 2.7.9 to 2.8.0
localstorage upgraded from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
logging upgraded from 1.1.17 to 1.1.20
meteor upgraded from 1.7.0 to 1.9.2
meteor-base upgraded from 1.1.0 to 1.4.0
minifier-css upgraded from 1.2.16 to 1.4.0
minifier-js upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.4.0
minimongo upgraded from 1.2.1 to 1.4.5
mobile-experience upgraded from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5
modern-browsers added, version 0.1.2
modules upgraded from 0.9.2 to 0.13.0
modules-runtime upgraded from 0.8.0 to 0.10.2
mongo upgraded from 1.1.22 to 1.6.0
mongo-decimal added, version 0.1.0
mongo-dev-server added, version 1.1.0
mongo-id upgraded from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7
npm-mongo* upgraded from 2.2.30 to 3.1.1
oauth upgraded from 1.1.13 to 1.2.3
oauth2 upgraded from 1.1.11 to 1.2.1
ordered-dict upgraded from 1.0.9 to 1.1.0
promise upgraded from 0.8.9 to 0.11.1
random upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.1.0
rate-limit upgraded from 1.0.8 to 1.0.9
reactive-dict upgraded from 1.1.9 to 1.2.1
reload upgraded from 1.1.11 to 1.2.0
retry upgraded from 1.0.9 to 1.1.0
routepolicy upgraded from 1.0.12 to 1.1.0
session upgraded from 1.1.7 to 1.1.8
shell-server upgraded from 0.2.4 to 0.4.0
socket-stream-client added, version 0.2.2
srp upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.0.12
standard-minifier-css upgraded from 1.3.4 to 1.5.0
standard-minifier-js upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.4.0
tracker upgraded from 1.1.3 to 1.2.0
url upgraded from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
webapp upgraded from 1.3.17 to 1.7.0
* These packages have been updated to new versions that are not backwards
compatible.
escrow: updated to Meteor 1.8.
-- Notice --
1.7: The underscore package has been removed as a dependency of all packages in
meteor-base. Since some apps may have been using underscore through this
dependency without having it listed in their .meteor/packages files, it
has been added automatically. If your app is not using underscore, then
you can safely remove it using 'meteor remove underscore'.
Changes to your project's package version selections from updating package
versions:
caching-html-compiler upgraded from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
iron:url upgraded from 1.0.11 to 1.1.0
jquery upgraded from 1.11.10 to 1.11.11
mizzao:timesync upgraded from 0.3.4 to 0.5.0
momentjs:moment upgraded from 2.18.1 to 2.22.2
spacebars-compiler upgraded from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
standard-minifier-css upgraded from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
templating-compiler upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3
The following top-level dependencies were not updated to the very latest
version available:
* iron:router 1.1.1 (1.1.2 is available)
Newer versions of the following indirect dependencies are available:
* coffeescript 1.0.17 (2.3.1_2 is available)
These versions may not be compatible with your project.
To update one or more of these packages to their latest
compatible versions, pass their names to `meteor update`,
or just run `meteor update --all-packages`.
The package.json content is
{
'name': 'Mellrose',
'private': true,
'scripts': {
'start': 'meteor run'
},
'dependencies': {
'#babel/runtime': '^7.1.2',
'africastalking': '0.0.10',
'babel-runtime': '^6.20.0',
'bcrypt': '^1.0.3',
'meteor-node-stubs': '~0.2.4'
}
}
The current Meteor version is: Meteor 1.8
Ubuntu version is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Please help!