Hello, everybody I am in the process of moving our discourse server to a new location. On old server I did: discourse backup then copied the latest backup file from container to host system copied it to new server then on new server: started the discourse container copied backup file into it did discourse restore (went fine) Then I possibly made a mistake, I’ve tried to restart discourse container using docker restart, without rebuilding it. when I opened it in browser, it was just showing me five blinking dots. I tried rebuild the app, using ‘launcher rebuild app’ command. same five blinking dots. what am I missing? thanks a lot in advance.

[image] Gregory Edigarov: I tried rebuild the app, using ‘launcher rebuild app’ command. Did the rebuild finish successfully? Is the container running? You might try running Discourse Doctor: sudo -s /var/discourse/ ./discourse-doctor That should give more information that could help.

The rebuild passes just fine. And no problem is found by discourse-doctor.

What happens when you try Safe Mode?

[image] Gregory Edigarov: started the discourse container Was this using the standard install or some other method? Did you happen to look at the site before restoring the backup?

[image] Gregory Edigarov: I tried rebuild the app, using ‘launcher rebuild app’ command. same five blinking dots. Look at the javascript console. It’s probably a broken theme, but could be a broken CDN configuration if you have a CDN (or S3). If you don’t have CDN, then safe mode will probably fix it; then you can find the theme (or perhaps plugin) that’s the issue.

starts just fine if I disable unofficial plugins. no_unofficial_plugins how can I take a list of plugins installed?

Mostly, remove the ones that don’t come from github/discourse/ in your app.yml and then rebuild.

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JammyDodger February 1, 2024, 7:25am 9

Though if you share a list of your plugins here we may be able to spot one with a known issue, which may save you some time.

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