Any idea how to solve this? FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return # Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn' exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"db_migrate", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 1 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. ./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

Hi @darkpixlz and @Stephen, I figured it out. I had created a fork of one of the plugins earlier in the year to fix an issue, but now it has become a problem. I ran discourse doctor, which displayed that the plugin was the issue. Luckily, my changes were merged into the plugin’s main repo, so I switched to the official repo and the issue disappeared.

Hey @b4oshany, You’re going to need to give us more of the error above the FAILED statement to be able to provide a definitive answer. As the error message says please scroll up and look for an earlier error message. The usual culprit would be a plugin, are you using any third-party plugins which don’t come from the Discourse repo? Start by commenting those out, and go from there.

Failed to Bootstrap after running launcher rebuild app

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darkpixlz (Pyx ) October 7, 2022, 10:32pm 3

Can you send a list of plugins?

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Failed to bootstrap - pups Self-hosting	5	503	October 21, 2023
Cannot ./launcher rebuild app Self-hosting	5	201	July 24, 2025
Rebuild failed Self-hosting	1	420	January 13, 2024
Launcher rebuild errors Self-hosting	4	729	June 18, 2024
Failure to rebuild app Self-hosting	9	1325	May 31, 2022

Failed to Bootstrap after running launcher rebuild app

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