Hi guys, I’m new to building a community with Discourse and was told to update the latest Discourse version in SSH. I’ve checked and followed the instruction at Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest. But when I execute cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app it says my container/.yml doesn’t exist [troubleshooting-1] Any suggestions will be appreciate!

Hi @William_Gary :slight_smile: Did you follow the standard install or some other method to create your Discourse instance? There’s a chance your app.yml is called something else (eg. if you have a two-container set-up).

Hi @JammyDodger Yeah, I did follow the standard install. when I do docker version It says this and it looks like somehow I got two containers. [troubleshooting-2] Is there a way to get rid of one of them?

@pfaffman Yeah, you’re right, and thank you so much, Jay!

Failed to update Discourse new version

Product Support Self-hosting

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 2, 2022, 12:11pm 4

You need to run as user root.

Do a

sudo su -

Before the cd command

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