error: unknown option `--projectRoots'

[AyazAI]

The expo app i had was requiring at least SDK version 33. I upgraded the app using expo upgrade and followed the instructions. After upgrading when i wanted to start the app by typing npm start. The following error was shown.

error: unknown option --projectRoots

with the following messages

Warning: Problem validating app.json: Unable to perform cache refresh for /home/ayz/.cache/expo/schema-undefined.json: Error: API Response Error: undefined is an invalid SDK version.
Warning: Invalid sdkVersion. Valid options are 7.0.0, 8.0.0, 9.0.0, 10.0.0, 11.0.0, 12.0.0, 13.0.0, 14.0.0, 15.0.0, 16.0.0, 17.0.0, 18.0.0, 19.0.0, 20.0.0, 21.0.0, 22.0.0, 23.0.0, 24.0.0, 25.0.0, 26.0.0, 27.0.0, 28.0.0, 29.0.0, 30.0.0, 31.0.0, 32.0.0, 33.0.0, 34.0.0, 35.0.0, 36.0.0, 37.0.0, 38.0.0, 39.0.0
Starting React Native packager...

My expo expo --version 3.28.0