I installed Discourse in a CentOS machine following the guide here . In case it helps, we are also using NGINX Proxy Manager . The installation worked a few weeks, until we had to reboot the machine. Then it failed to start. Here the rebuild output: Ensuring launcher is up to date Launcher is up-to…

[image] Norike: I found some backups at the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default folder, which sounds hopeful. ok, then copy this entire dir somewhere for seafekeeping: /var/discourse/shared that way you can try to restore from backups or even try to repair the corrupt db if you…

PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record i think your db’s corrupt. imo it would be best to restore from a backup. i think discourse may make backups by default? look in discourse/shared/app/backups or whatever. if you don’t have a discourse backup, then this becomes more of a postgre…

[image] shyguy: i think your db’s corrupt. imo it would be best to restore from a backup. Sounds like it to me. I hope you can find a solution @Norike … meanwhile I find this quite worrying - I believe a software-initiated reboot should leave the database in a clean state. Was this a hard reb…

Thanks! Indeed I found some backups at the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default folder, which sounds hopeful. However, according to the Restore a Backup from the Command Line guide, the container needs to be running to import the database, but the ./launcher enter app command fails: x…

[image] Ed S: Sounds like it to me. I hope you can find a solution @Norike … meanwhile I find this quite worrying - I believe a software-initiated reboot should leave the database in a clean state. Was this a hard reboot, aka a power-cycle? It was a software reboot after applying some updates…

Thanks - I’m not familiar with XFS but a quick search suggests that it should be safe to use. Just possibly xfs_info / will be usefully informative.

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That restored it. Thanks!

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